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Re: How DNS works ?

From: Len Conrad
Date: Friday, November 1, 2002
Time: 6:05:44 pm


>I believe the issue here isn't a timeout, it's a delay before re-querying
>after a lame response. If I understand what Aaron said correctly, the
>server in question replies, but it's no longer authoritative for the zone,
>so it sends some sort of delegation response (a lame one).

It should send a referral, but there is no way any sane DNS or program of
goodwill would ever send such a high-rate of queries. It's sending queries
before they could possibly be a timeout.

Len




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