Re: broken DNS lookups by many web browsers?

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

Received on Friday, 8 March 1996 05:56:54 UTC