Re: Polipo blocks for 60s on startup with dodgy router

David Röthlisberger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.polipo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 26 Jul 2012, at 17:11, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> The DNS server should send a negative reply for an unqualified name it
> doesn't recognise, which should avoid a timeout.  Something's seriously
> broken somewhere.


Yes, indeed: The router's DNS implementation was completely broken.
Polipo is not at fault here; I was only posting this description of the
symptoms and of polipo's DNS behaviour on startup, for the benefit of
any future web searches for similar symptoms. :-)

Cheers,
Dave.


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