The utilities ping, ftp, telnet all end up using a routine called
gethostbyname() to translate a host name to an ip number which can then be
used for various programmatic purposes. If the host name is not found the
timeout value for the gethostbyname() is quite excessive - around 75
seconds on my Digital UNIX machine.
For purposes I won't go into we have a need to lower this timeout. Does
anyone know how to do this? Ideally I'd like to do this programmatically (I
know this isn't the right forum for this, but the expertise in here is
awesome in many categories). Is this a DU tunable parameter? There's GOTTA
be a way, but I just can't find it!
MANY thanks and regards for any hints or suggestions!
Chris
Received on Thu Dec 17 1998 - 15:37:19 NZDT