[9828] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: broken DNS lookups by many web browsers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hamilton)
Fri Mar 8 06:01:55 1996
To: Jeff Lewis <lewis@netserver.stanford.edu>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org, schemers@leland.stanford.edu,
riepel@networking.stanford.edu, torg@netserver.stanford.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Mar 1996 15:10:12 PST."
<199603072310.PAA13988@netserver.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 10:56:17 +0000
From: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Jeff Lewis writes:
| Is this actually incorrect behavior by the clients? If caching IPs is too
| big a win for clients to give up, can we at least make them sensitive to
| ttls? Or at the very least do what libwww4 does and query again on failure?
Query again on failure seems perfectly reasonable ? I don't think
anyone can argue with that. How much of the problem is down to
underlying TCP/IP implementations, though ? Makes it harder to work
around...
Martin
