On Jul 11, 2022, at 06:51, ashok athukuri via Unbound-users <unbound-users@lists.nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:
> As per https://nlnetlabs.nl/documentation/unbound/unbound.conf/ > > outbound-msg-retry: <number> > The number of retries Unbound will do in case of a non positive > response is received. If a forward nameserver is used, this is the > number of retries per forward nameserver in case of throwaway re- > sponse. > what is "non positive" response here SERVFAIL or NXDOMAIN or BOTH? > I have not read the code in this instance but I would normally interpret "non-positive response" to mean "RCODE is not NOERROR". (There is a particular kind of response which is considered negative in some circumstances where RCODE == NOERROR and the answer section is empty, but I do not think this is one of those circumstances.) Joe
