What is the query timeout on resolver and servers

[Cricket Liu]

> What is the retry interval on a dns server (say running 8.2.1) when it
> asks another
> server before it resends the same query after not hearing a reply?

This is dynamic, but it's at least four seconds.  See the
function retrytime() in ns_forw.c for details.

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