[dns-wg] Re: DNS lameness notifications

Hi Niall,

> 	Rather than false positives, doesn't that indicate a
> 	different kind of lameness -- of the delegation, rather
> 	than of the server?

Actually it depends on the test. If I interpret Anand's comment correctly, and 
only 1 query per name is made, then you'd only need one server to be slow or 
one packet to be lost (and isn't that what udp is for? :)) to become flagged 
as 'unresolvable'. But I'd like to believe that the DNS can do better than 
that.

Besides, flagging too many nameserver as unresolvable means that the actual 
lameness test won't be performed, so the statistics could end up to be 
seriously tainted...

Best,
Gilles

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