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From: Lubomir Radev <demond@server2.digital-web.net>
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Is it possible to set a timeout for the DNS resolver?
The IP that I connect from changed recently and system
login process now takes more than a minute to complete,
apparently because of DNS reverse resolve problem
(I experience similar delay when log into other boxes
with different NS setup; the box in question does not
run a name server)


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