[119219] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What DNS Is Not
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Mon Nov 9 23:21:19 2009
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:18:31 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Andrew Cox <andrew@accessplus.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <4AF8E8D7.9070207@accessplus.com.au>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Andrew Cox wrote:
> I think the issue is more that older apps would expect that if they can
> get a response then everything is ok.. perhaps this simply an outdated
> method and needs to be rethought.
>
The app is expecting a response of some kind. When it gets back bogus
information that has it connecting to an IP that may not respond at all,
the app will have to sit around waiting on a timeout.
Jack
