On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Steve Freegard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Friday, 1 February 2013 11:43:49 UTC, Ben Noordhuis wrote:
>>
>>
>> Right, I can reproduce it now.
>>
>> It seems to be a c-ares quirk (the DNS resolver library we use).  If a
>> server replies with SERVFAIL, c-ares retries the query up to four
>> times, then gives up with an ARES_ECONNREFUSED error.
>>
>> I don't think there is much we can do about that.  Maybe you can bring
>> it up on the c-ares mailing list.
>
>
>
> Ok - I've had a look through the c-ares documentation and found the cause of
> this,  basically SERVFAIL, NOTIMP, REFUSED and any mismatched questions are
> discarded by c-ares unless ares_init_options() is called with the
> ARES_FLAG_NOCHECKRESP flag set.   See http://c-ares.haxx.se/ares_init.html
>
> I've no idea what they were thinking making this the default.  I can't see
> any benefit to this unless you have broken nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf.
> In all other cases this is simply O(retries) overhead as you simply get the
> same result back for each retried query before receiving the ECONNREFUSED
> result.
>
> I'd prefer to get the relevant error back immediately (which would also be
> 3x faster).
>
> What do you think?
>
> Regards,
> Steve.

I've landed that in [1] (master only).

[1] https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/6aed61f

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