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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Marc Slemko <ma...@worldgate.com> on 1997/07/30 18:59:49 UTC

add option to decrease DNS lookup timeout

I am wondering if this is worth adding as an optional feature, probably
ifdefed out by default.  You can use BIND internal structures (documented
ones) to lower the timeout on DNS lookups.  You could set it so that the
server would wait no longer than 1 second for a response.  This should
help places with really broken nameservers a lot.  Perhaps.

eg.

        _res.retrans = 1;
        _res.retry = 0;