>RTFS ;))
"s" man resolv.conf talks about options, but not timeout or retry
>You may use MTA config. E.g. sendmail does control these options with config:
I use only postfix
>If you use another MTA, you can port sendmail's way to implement these
>options: it changes internal resolver data.
I will ask on the BIND list
>But I suppose better way is to pay much attention to choose and setup
>named. I maintain two mail emitters with moderately high volume of mail;
>with named 8.2.* default for FreeBSD, I need to restart named twice a day
>via cron task, otherwise it hangs in a few days.
> With >10 requests per
>second which require recursive search, named 8.2.3-release hangs up on
>my systems in a hour or two (it stops to serve requests, doesn't crash).
upgrade to 8.2.4, 8.2.3 had a self-kill bug.
Len
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