Re: Dealing with unresponsive servers

[David B. <da...@ve...>]

On Dec 23, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Louis Mandelstam wrote:

> On the assumption that an existing solution is not available, I am preparing to implement a replacement for ExtendedResolver that tracks the RTT on each SimpleResolver in its set and uses this to select the fastest SimpleResolver (and consider an unresponsive server "very slow").  I'm taking this approach to avoid having to modify dnsjava itself so that I do not need to maintain a fork of dnsjava with my project.

> I'd be interested in any comments or suggestions regarding the above.

I think your plan sounds like exactly what I would do in your place.  You are just running into a lack of a feature in ExtendedResolver (which I think is shared by most system resolver libraries).

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David Blacka                          <da...@ve...> 
Principal Engineer    Verisign Platform Product Development