Greg Lopp on Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:30:10 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] DNS timeouts (was Re: troubleshooting sluggish pine startup)


man resolv.conf
or 
man -S 5 resolver

that is, if you have bind-utils installed.


On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 01:19:42PM -0500, Kevin Brosius wrote:
> Andrew White wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Jason,
> > 
> > I bet PINE is trying to do a DNS lookup which is failing.  30 seconds
> > is the default timeout for a DNS lookup.  What's in your
> > /etc/resolv.conf?
> > 
> > -Andrew
> > 
> 
> I've wondered about this recently...  Are there good reasons not to have
> a much quicker DNS timeout?  I've had hangups that were most likely DNS
> failures (when I didn't have remote DNS servers available, or was
> running MASQ and hadn't enabled remote DNS on the machine doing the
> MASQ'ing).  Normally I'd expect a faster timeout to be more useful in my
> case.  eg. If DNS isn't available I'd like to know in a couple seconds
> for interactive use, so I can do something else or resolve the problem. 
> 
> Would someone point me at some good documentation for resolv.conf
> settings?
> 
> -- 
> Kevin Brosius
> 
> 
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