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| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man5/resolver.5 | 19 |
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diff --git a/share/man/man5/resolver.5 b/share/man/man5/resolver.5 index 51b730e..5c196f3 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/resolver.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/resolver.5 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ .\" @(#)resolver.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd December 7, 2003 +.Dd September 9, 2004 .Dt RESOLVER 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -149,17 +149,26 @@ will be tried first as an absolute name before any .Em search list elements are appended to it. .It Sy timeout: Ns Ar n -sets the amount of time the resolver will wait for a response from a remote +sets the initial amount of time the resolver will wait +for a response from a remote name server before retrying the query via a different name server. +The resolver may wait longer during subsequent retries +of the current query since an exponential back-off is applied to +the timeout value. Measured in seconds, the default is -.Dv RES_TIMEOUT +.Dv RES_TIMEOUT , +the allowed maximum is +.Dv RES_MAXRETRANS (see .In resolv.h ) . .It Sy attempts: Ns Ar n -sets the number of times the resolver will send a query to its name servers +sets the number of times the resolver will send a query to each of +its name servers before giving up and returning an error to the calling application. The default is -.Dv RES_DFLRETRY +.Dv RES_DFLRETRY , +the allowed maximum is +.Dv RES_MAXRETRY (see .In resolv.h ) . .It Sy no_tld_query |
