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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] small dns improvements
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:05:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6e3600609acfa1120c83f85812891f3a@chula.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOw7k5gmafeG9upUmjKhgB=9kyoyO0+sUJ_eySu3URfXw=6Wdg@mail.gmail.c>

On Mon Jan 16 13:03:38 EST 2012, charles.forsyth@gmail.com wrote:

> that one's not inherently fatal, in the sense that it shouldn't stop the
> search.
>
> On 16 January 2012 17:13, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>
> > 2.  we're ignoring status codes that we should be treating as fatal (like
> > Srvfail)

not clear enough.  we were persisting in asking the same question in the
same manner of a server returning srvfail, thus preventing us from asking
the same question in a different way, or of a different server.

we persisted long enough that we timed out the query before asking a reasonable
question of a capable server.

- erik



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-16 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-16 17:13 erik quanstrom
2012-01-16 18:02 ` Charles Forsyth
     [not found] ` <CAOw7k5gmafeG9upUmjKhgB=9kyoyO0+sUJ_eySu3URfXw=6Wdg@mail.gmail.c>
2012-01-16 18:05   ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2012-01-16 18:13     ` Charles Forsyth
     [not found]     ` <CAOw7k5g6j4VcZct4LpxN=SRiUjhU1aFVo8nOtDAm_Dmi0c7KkQ@mail.gmail.c>
2012-01-16 18:19       ` erik quanstrom
2012-01-16 18:07   ` erik quanstrom

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