stub resolver timeout

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Mon Dec 13 16:52:40 UTC 1999


In article <19991213173443.Y14429 at stahlw06.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de>,
Ralf Hildebrandt  <R.Hildebrandt at tu-bs.de> wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 11:22:14AM -0500, j j wrote:
>
>> If my DNS client have 2 name server's in its resolv.conf file and the first
>> server returned a SERVFAIL to a query, would it try the second name server
>> in its resolv.conf for the same query or would it forward the SERVFAIL
>> responds back to the application ...
>
>The second one is queried. Question: Would it make sense to specify two
>servers if only one would be queried? Why specifiy the second at all?

His question pertained to the difference between a server returning
SERVFAIL and a server not responding at all.  The second server would
certainly be used if there were a timeout with the first one.

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