Make it clear why they were not performed.
The outpacket/query ratio means that on average, 0.37 packets were needed to answer a question.
Initially this ratio may be well over 100% as additional queries may be needed to actually recurse the DNS and figure out the addresses of nameservers.
-Finally, 12% of queries were not performed because identical queries had gone out previously, saving load on servers worldwide.
+Finally, 12% of queries were not performed because identical queries had gone out previously and failed, saving load on servers worldwide.
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