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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:57:05 -0800
From:      patrick <gibblertron@gmail.com>
To:        "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: how to know what DNS server is being used
Message-ID:  <b043a4850701220857p682048bdycc1bd069326f2e5e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <45436449.4020509@infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <20061028025626.GA39172@skytracker.ca> <2B8A4ACE-ACE3-44D0-B40B-26D96D43A4E8@shire.net> <17731.22324.706536.159980@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <45436449.4020509@infracaninophile.co.uk>

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On 10/28/06, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:

> On recent FreeBSD, the resolver actually iterates through the listed
> nameserver lines in order, sending the query out to each in turn until
> it gets a response.  It used to be that the resolver would wait for the
> full 30s DNS timeout before trying the next server (hence the cry dreaded
> by sysadmins everywhere that "the Internet is slow today"), but nowadays

Is there any way to configure this 30 second delay for older versions
of FreeBSD (eg. 4.11)?

Patrick



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