can timeout -> nxd

[Barry Margolin]

In article <200005121248.WAA24925 at bsdi.dv.isc.org>,
 <Mark.Andrews at nominum.com> wrote:
>
>> freebsd 4.0-stable
>> bind 8.2.2-P5
>> 
>> is it possible that a caching-only server is returning NXDOMAIN when a
>> lookup times out?
>
>	No.

To expand on Mark's terse answer, when a caching server times out trying to
perform a recursive query, it will return a SERVFAIL error.

It's possible that the API used by an application may not distinguish these
cases, or the API might distinguish them but the application doesn't.

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