From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 21 9:25:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E97D37B401 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:25:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from LConrad@Go2France.com) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 71B5B16B20 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 18:45:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from IBM-HIRXKN66F0W.Go2France.com [195.115.185.184] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A190C2370124; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 18:32:16 +0200 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010621182558.03b399a0@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 18:26:08 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: resolv.conf missing options? 2nd sumbit Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I´m setting up a couple of outbound, high-volume mail gateways that need some kind fairly quick failover when their primary DNS is down, to use another DNS. The behavior avaible in some resolvers seems sufficient. I´ve seen resolv.conf options of such as attempts:4 and timeout:2 in the DNS & BIND book, etc but these are not in the 4.6R man resolv.conf page. Is there any other way in FreeBSD to set these resolver params? Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message