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?

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  Precise NM with "dns=dnsmasq" breaks systems with non-equivalent
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