resolv.conf

[Doug Barton]

Paul Vixie wrote:
> 
> > FreeBSD "man resolv.conf" makes no mention of options timeout:xx
> > and retry:xx.
> 
> that resolver is way out of date, then.

	Or the man page is. :)

> > Is there any way to set them from the named perspective?
> 
> it depends.  named doesn't use the ones in resolv.conf, no matter whether
> the system's resolver supports them or not.  named manages its own timeouts.
> however, if you link your apps against the latest BIND resolver then they
> will start parsing the new options even if the system shared library's
> resolver doesn't understand them.

	We use BIND for the system resolver stuff, and FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE used
BIND 8.2.3. I'm not 100% sure whether the options in question are supported
or not, but I will check with the guy who handles the vendor import for
BIND and find out if we need to get the man page updated. 

Doug
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