Retransmission timings for queries

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

	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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