Re: DNS Round Robin Handling
Christian Biesinger <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Jul 2012 19:23:56 -0700
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On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Zippy Zeppoli <[email protected]> wrote: > I was wondering, how does Necko (if thats the proper layer) handle DNS > round robin. > If it hits a webserver which resolves but times out, will it automatically > fail over to the other IP? > What are the stats for the timeout? Firefox does fail over when it gets a connection error from the host. As for timeouts, I believe we just use whatever the OS timeout is for the connect() call. -christian