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Re: How common is lack of DNS server diversity?


From: woods () weird com (Greg A. Woods)
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:44:40 -0500 (EST)


[ On Saturday, January 27, 2001 at 23:53:54 (+0100), Havard Eidnes wrote: ]
Subject: Re: How common is lack of DNS server diversity?

If "doesn't resolve" means "the target domain itself exists but none
of the authoritative name servers for the domain respond", those
mail systems doing as mentioned above should most probably be
replaced, because they do not properly and reasonably distinguish
between "hard" and "soft" errors when using the DNS.

Yup, but don't tell me!  :-)

Unfortunately "it works most of the time", or "it always works for us"
keeps such broken stuff in production.

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