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

[Kevin Brosius <kbrosius@kns.com>]

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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