[LEAPSECS] stale leap second information

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <4CCFC94D-6324-4A64-87CB-8EA5E9BC08F0 at bsdimp.com>, Warner Losh write
s:

>>>> Unless there is an overriding value in efficient encoding,
>>> 
>>> There is.  getaddrinfo(3) is almost always available and works
>>> about as well as any protocol on the internet can work.
>> 
>> Doesn't getaddrinfo support IPv6, too?  Parsing the longer string 
>won't be dramatically slower.

Man DNS resolvers are setup to not forward IPv6 responses (because
they know there is no IPv6 connectivity behind them.)

In reality, I would send both an IPv6 and IPv4 DNS record as
response, hoping that at least one of them makes it through.

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