<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">On Jul 11, 2022, at 06:51, ashok athukuri via Unbound-users <unbound-users@lists.nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">As per <a href="https://nlnetlabs.nl/documentation/unbound/unbound.conf/">https://nlnetlabs.nl/documentation/unbound/unbound.conf/</a></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><pre class="gmail-man" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:fira-mono,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;overflow:auto;color:rgb(33,37,41)"><a id="gmail-outbound-msg-retry" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:inherit;background-color:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">outbound-msg-retry:</span></a> <i style="box-sizing:border-box"><number></i>
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.</pre></div><div><b>what is "non positive" response here SERVFAIL or NXDOMAIN or BOTH?</b></div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have not read the code in this instance but I would normally interpret "non-positive response" to mean "RCODE is not NOERROR".</div><div><br></div><div>(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.)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Joe</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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