On Mon Jan 16 13:03:38 EST 2012, charles.fors...@gmail.com wrote: > that one's not inherently fatal, in the sense that it shouldn't stop the > search. > > On 16 January 2012 17:13, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > > > 2. we're ignoring status codes that we should be treating as fatal (like > > Srvfail)
not clear enough. we were persisting in asking the same question in the same manner of a server returning srvfail, thus preventing us from asking the same question in a different way, or of a different server. we persisted long enough that we timed out the query before asking a reasonable question of a capable server. - erik