Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 09:57:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: Mipam <mipam@ibb.net> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: options in /etc/resolv.conf Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0405120954280.14477-100000@ux1.ibb.net> In-Reply-To: <20040510140640.GA32519@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Mon, 10 May 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: > FreeBSD uses a pretty standard version of BIND-8.3.7, and it uses the > BIND resolver code in libc -- See: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libbind/Makefile?rev=1.7&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup > > The part you're interested in is handled by the code in res_init.c: > look for the res_setoptions() function in: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/contrib/bind/lib/resolv/res_init.c?rev=1.1.1.8&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup > > Which suggests that the functionality you require is available, and > that the man page is somewhat lacking. Note that the man page isn't > supplied with the BIND sources, so it may well have got out of synch. > > Have you tried using those options in your /etc/resolv.conf? Do they > work? I have tried the options. options timeout:60 I added it to /etc/resolv.conf However, it doesnt seem to work, because the timeout period is still 40 seconds. Weird enough are nowhere errors detectable that the options isnt possible or anything. Bye, Reinoud.
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