Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:48:34 -0600 (CST) From: Tony Kimball <alk@pobox.com> To: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: resolver behaviour Message-ID: <13929.39477.406338.806610@avalon.east>
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IMO, current resolver behaviour is not appropriate. I would like the resolver to try all the nameservers at once, and return any positive lookup response. This is not the way it works now. If my wish is impractical for some unforseen reason, I would like the resolver to keep trying the nameservers until it runs out of fallback servers, or gets a positive lookup response. Instead, to the best of my current understanding, the resolver presently returns failure if it encounters a responding nameserver which reports a negative lookup response. This hardly seems appropriate for systems with interfaces on distinct, unconnected networks! Alternatively, I may be ignorant of some feature of the software which is excercised by current firewall practice. I would appreciate it if someone could grant me a clue, if this is the case. If it is not the case, I would like the readers to comment on what they deem to be the proper change to make in the current behaviour, so that I may make a generally useful modification to submit as a PR. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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