RFC 3958:Domain-Based Application Service Location...
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connection


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... domain; o connection to the designated remote server otherwise fails -- the specifics terms of which are defined when an application protocol ...


... For example, if the client gets a "connection refused" message from a server, should it retry for some (protocol-dependent) period of time? Or should it try the next-preferred target ...


... host-port pair did not work (connection refused, application-level error), the client is expected ...



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