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