patrick wrote: > On 10/28/06, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On recent FreeBSD, the resolver actually iterates through the listed >> nameserver lines in order, sending the query out to each in turn until >> it gets a response. It used to be that the resolver would wait for the >> full 30s DNS timeout before trying the next server (hence the cry dreaded >> by sysadmins everywhere that "the Internet is slow today"), but nowadays > > Is there any way to configure this 30 second delay for older versions > of FreeBSD (eg. 4.11)?
Nope. It's specified in the DNS RFCs, and consequently built into the
client side resolver stuff in libc.
Cheers,
Matthew
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