<tt><font size=2>Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote on
08/27/2016 06:41:08 AM:<br>
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> > What is the timeout value in the application? If one of
the servers<br>
> > is down or loses a UDP packet, and the application needs to retry<br>
> > the second server, is it waiting long enough?<br>
> <br>
> Most applications do not perform name resolution themselves, so this<br>
> is irrelevant. (The resolver will retry, not the application.)<br>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Correct, the application probably uses the resolver
on the host machine. But if that is timing out too soon, the application
fails. I was thinking of the end user experience as the entire system,
and was imprecise in my statement.</font></tt><font size=1 face="Arial"><i><br>
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