Retransmission timings for queries
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Tue Oct 10 23:56:24 UTC 2000
Upgrade to BIND 8.2.3 (currently in beta test). It has better
properties w.r.t. forwarders and timeouts. The answer to you
question under BIND this configuration is 60 secs.
Mark
>
> Hello,
>
> can anyone give me information about the exact timings when bind (bind
> 8.2.2p5) retransmits a UDP-Query to some other DNS server because it
> didn't get any answer from there? I couldn't find any hints on this in the
> documentation.
>
> The point is that I am using a ppp link to my ISP with dial-on-demand, and
> my ISP gives me a new dynamic IP address each time I call. So by
> construction, the first packet which is going to bring up the ppp link
> carries a wrong source address and is therfore as good as lost in most
> cases (the new IP address is known only after the first packet was
> generated and has brought up the line).
>
> Now it happens quite often that bind's queries to other servers bring up
> the line, but for my configuration, bind seems to wait exactly 1 minute
> before it sends its query again (I use forward-only mode, with one forward
> server configured).
>
> Thank you,
> Thomas
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