Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:56:00 -0600 (MDT) From: "Ryan Sommers" <ryans@gamersimpact.com> To: "Rostislav Krasny" <rosti_bsd@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: default resolver(5) configuration and behavior of functions like gethostbyname(3) Message-ID: <58805.208.4.77.15.1097880960.squirrel@208.4.77.15> In-Reply-To: <20041015165805.62571.qmail@web14822.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041015165805.62571.qmail@web14822.mail.yahoo.com>
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Rostislav Krasny said: >> Please explain why developers of FreeBSD had chose 4 instead of 2? Maybe >> they should change it to 2, as this default value is defined on most of >> other systems, including NetBSD? Don't know why 4 was chosen instead of 2, haven't had a chance to look at the commit logs. We might have ported over the code from OpenBSD and just didn't change their value. >> why is doubling the number of DNS queries? Is it gethostbyname(3) >> function or the resolver itself? Do you have 2 name servers in /etc/resolv.conf? Or do you have a hostname in /etc/resolv.conf that resolves to multiple IPs? -- Ryan Sommers ryans@gamersimpact.com
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