I believe "With this option Wget issues a new DNS lookup ... each time it makes a new connection." indicates that it wouldn't do a DNS lookup per packet, but rather per connection.
Regarding "And if wget is failing to connect isn't it best for it to do everything it can to reconnect ?", I personally agree with you, but I do not know the opinion of the developers. -- wget doesn't redo DNS lookup https://launchpad.net/bugs/84104 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
