Default BIND query timeouts

[Kevin Darcy]

If the named instance is responding from authoritative data, it is not 
initiating any outbound transaction, and therefore "timeout" has no 
meaning in that context.

                 - Kevin

On 5/19/2014 8:00 PM, Shawn Zhou wrote:
>
> What about non-recursive queries?
>
> In particular case, our test queries are non-recursive and we expect 
> the name server should have answers. We are sending test host with 
> very high query rate so BIND may be too busy to respond to all the 
> queries.
>
> On Monday, May 19, 2014 4:25 PM, Kevin Darcy <kcd at chrysler.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>     If a client sends a recursive query to the BIND instance, and that
>     instance needs to fetch the answer from one or more other upstream
>     sources, then my understanding is that the
>     "resolver-query-timeout" global option (see the BIND docs)
>     controls the timeout for each one of those upstream transactions.
>     Default value is 10 seconds.
>
>     Does that answer your question?
>
>                         - Kevin
>
>     On 5/19/2014 6:15 PM, Shawn Zhou wrote:
>>
>>     I  am looking at some scripts that use IO::Socket::INET and
>>     IO::Select for testing BIND.
>>
>>     UDP sockets are created use use IO::Socket::INET and sockets are
>>     polled via IO::Select at 6-second interval.
>>
>>          my  $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(
>>                 PeerHost => $server,
>>                 PeerPort => $port,
>>                 Proto    => $protocol,
>>                 Blocking => 0,
>>
>>     I'd like to know what the timeout is for the queries.
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     Shawn
>>
>>
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