Retry question

[tmaestas at dnsconsultants.com]

Thanks Kevin, that's exactly what I was looking for.

-Tim


On Thu, 3 May 2001, Kevin Darcy wrote:

> 
> According to the resolver algorithm in RFC 1034, Section 5.3.3,
> resolvers should try other nameservers when they receive a "servers
> [sic] failure or other bizarre contents" response.
> 
> 
> - Kevin
> 
> tmaestas at dnsconsultants.com wrote:
> 
> >         Say I have domain.com with 10 nameservers.  Due to
> >         an error in the master zone file, the master name
> >         server rejects domain.com.  These servers are all
> >         running 8.2.3.  While the zone has been rejected,
> >         8.2.3 is returning SERVFAIL for queries on the zone.
> >         When a nameserver in some other domain queries
> >         the master nameserver for foo.domain.com, and gets
> >         a SERVFAIL response, should the nameserver then go
> >         and query another of the nameservers authoritative
> >         for domain.com, or does resolution stop at this point?
> >
> >         In short, will SERVFAIL cause a nameserver or resolver
> >         to try a different authoritative nameserver, or will
> >         they just stop?
> >
> > -Tim
> 
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