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Re: [PLUG] DNS timeouts (was Re: troubleshooting sluggish pine startup)
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Mr. DNS answers the question here, but there's no info on how to change
the timeout. -A.W.
http://www.acmebw.com/askmrdns/archive.php?question=372
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Kevin Brosius wrote:
>
> 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?
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