Ubuntu
dnsmasq package

  1. Bug #1003842
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 1003842

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Thomas Hood (jdthood) wrote : Re: Precise NM with "dns=dnsmasq" breaks systems with non-equivalent upstream nameservers

Sergio in #6:
> Yet, it is sufficient to retry the operation to have a good chance of success.

How does an application know that it should retry? It has received an authoritative answer on the first try that the name does not exist.

> An alternative would be not to search sequentially, but to keep asking the other nameservers

You mean send duplicate requests out every single time?