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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:05:38 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] small dns improvements
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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