From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 26 14:24:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0274437B401 for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 14:24:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f7QLNLC43438; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:23:21 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:23:21 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Cao Luhui Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Helping! Message-ID: <20010827092321.A41758@itouchnz.itouch> References: <003101c12c67$d7be4870$2e0fc2ca@caolh> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <003101c12c67$d7be4870$2e0fc2ca@caolh>; from caolh@sdu.edu.cn on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:41:45PM +0800 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 On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:41:45PM +0800, Cao Luhui wrote: > > Hi,Miss/Mr: > How do you do! > I am a net manager in a university in china. Our school is a user of FreeBSD. Now I want to ask you a question. Whethere does resolv.conf of FreeBSD support "options retry:n timeput:n"? A quick look at the man page for resolv.conf doesn't reveal any such option. >If this resolv.conf can't support it, could you tell me how to cut the time for DNS resolving. DNS resolution is limited by 'Net connectivity. To my knowledge, there isn't any automatic retries built into the DNS server, or the resolver. Retries are initiated by the software. If you want to cut the time on DNS resolution, you must make sure that the connectivity between the client and the DNS host be very good. If you ISP's DNS server sucks big time, you could build a small DNS server on your FreeBSD host, and see whether that helps; mind you, nothing helps like having good connectivity. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message