outbound-msg-retry definition query

[Joe Abley]

On Jul 11, 2022, at 06:51, ashok athukuri via Unbound-users <unbound-users at 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

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