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From: Wietse Venema (wietse_at_porcupine.org)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 19:59:05 CST

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    Greg Hackney:
    > On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 14:34, Wietse Venema wrote:
    > > Correct. Postfix invokes the client routines in resolver(3) which
    > > hide all the gory details of querying a server.
    >
    > Thanks for the info.
    >
    > > Neither FreeBSD 4.7 nor 7.3 document RES_TIMEOUT.
    >
    > I ran across this in the BIND 8 resolver.5 manual:
    >
    > timeout:n
    > sets the amount of time the resolver will wait for a
    > response from a remote name server before retrying the
    > query via a different name server. Measured in sec-
    > onds, the default is RES_TIMEOUT (see <resolv.h>).

    Obviously, the systems that I refer to do not ship with BIND 8
    client libraries.

            Wietse