[150850] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Programmers with network engineering skills
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen van Aart)
Tue Mar 6 16:10:56 2012
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:09:51 -0800
From: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Jimmy Hess wrote:
> (15) 30 seconds per resolver seems like a good timeout for DNS queries, so no
> need for a configurable timeout; just try each server
> sequentially, make the
> UI hang,
Of course you HAVE to use "busy waiting" in order to be able to quickly
act upon the query timing out so you can swiftly move to the next dns
server. That way the UI hangs for the least amount of time possible.
(that was sarcasm)
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