From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 23 10: 0:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBE8937B406 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 10:00:50 -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 DFB9D16B13 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 19:00:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from IBM-HIRXKN66F0W.Go2France.com [195.115.185.184] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id ACE43D90124; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 19:07:48 +0200 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010623185802.04051eb0@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 19:01:42 +0200 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: resolv.conf options In-Reply-To: <20010623080351.A982@iv.nn.kiev.ua> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010622153827.02fa0da0@mail.Go2France.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20010622153827.02fa0da0@mail.Go2France.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >RTFS ;)) "s" man resolv.conf talks about options, but not timeout or retry >You may use MTA config. E.g. sendmail does control these options with config: I use only postfix >If you use another MTA, you can port sendmail's way to implement these >options: it changes internal resolver data. I will ask on the BIND list >But I suppose better way is to pay much attention to choose and setup >named. I maintain two mail emitters with moderately high volume of mail; >with named 8.2.* default for FreeBSD, I need to restart named twice a day >via cron task, otherwise it hangs in a few days. > With >10 requests per >second which require recursive search, named 8.2.3-release hangs up on >my systems in a hour or two (it stops to serve requests, doesn't crash). upgrade to 8.2.4, 8.2.3 had a self-kill bug. 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-hackers" in the body of the message