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... User Agent Client (UAC) or a stateful proxy). Stateless
proxies are discussed in Section 4.4.
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... transaction state. This presents a challenge for stateless proxies,
which still need to meet the requirement ...
... session identifier creates a new one. The problem
with stateless proxies is at a lower layer; it is retransmitted
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... simple case where
there were no failures when attempting to contact a server. Whenever
the stateless proxy receives the request, it performs the appropriate
DNS queries ...
... are not guaranteed to be deterministic. This is because records that
contain the same priority have no specified order. The stateless
proxy MUST define a deterministic order to the records in that case,
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... ASCII-compatible
encoding. To make processing easier for stateless proxies, it is
RECOMMENDED that domain ...
... proxy can remain
stateless. However, if the first server is not contacted
successfully, and a subsequent server is, the proxy cannot remain
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... successfully, and a subsequent server is, the proxy cannot remain
stateless for this transaction. If it were stateless, a
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... stateless for this transaction. If it were stateless, a
retransmission could very well go to a different server if the failed
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... Network implementors should be aware of this
limitation, and not use stateless proxies that access DNS if this
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