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