browser should try again in case of 'can't find server'

sumeet inani · 04-27-2011, 12:54 AM

When my internet is slow & i try to open a web page then I get message in my firefox 3.6.3 that 'can't find server at www.website.com'. It isn't that URL is wrong but maybe connection to DNS server is slow or something similiar. I remember that wget tries 20 times by default to get the file (browsing is downloading+decoding+displaying).
Does any web browser or addon tries repeatedly till it is successful in contacting website server? It can tell me 'trying nth attempt at www.website.com'

acid_kewpie · 04-27-2011, 02:26 AM

well TCP will already do this, it's not like there is only one single attempt to establish a connection, and at some point you have to call it a day and believe that after 5 failed TCP SYN's the server is not there, otherwise you can be drifting into DDOS territory.

sumeet inani · 04-27-2011, 04:25 AM

ddos=distributed denial of service

If I get 'server at www.website.com is taking too long to respond' .
Can I tweak any setting or would that be also violation of netiquette?