I have received only two answers to my query below (thanks to Massimo Ianigro
and Irene A. Shilikhina), and had some look on the man pages.
The time-out and number of retries between queries to a given nameserver is a
resolver matter. It could in principle be configured in an include file
resolv.h for the resolver library ... but this implies rebuilding the resolver
library. THERE IS NO *RUNTIME* OPTION TO SET.
(in my case the solution is not viable, too many machines to do).
On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
> Now if the primary [nameserver] goes down (say it's off, or just like
> yesterday some cleaner kicks the ethernet plug), the clients gets slow,
> it's like that they interrogate the primary, and only when that times out
> they go on to the first secondary.
>
> - is this time-out somewhat configurable (I'm interested in general
> solutions, or at least for DU and Solaris) on the client ?
>
> - or can it be configured on the nameserver ?
Received on Mon Nov 30 1998 - 10:21:50 NZDT