"no data known" vrs "host not found"

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Tue Mar 26 18:12:31 UTC 2002


In article <a7qbjf$48h at pub3.rc.vix.com>, admjcd  <admjcd at VOLPE.DOT.GOV> wrote:
>Also I did some research on "negative Caching" and found this :
>
>http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2308.html
>
>   "Negative responses without SOA records SHOULD NOT be cached as there
>   is no way to prevent the negative responses looping forever between a
>   pair of servers even with a short TTL.

Since the responses *do* contain SOA records, the above paragraph is
irrelevant.

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