[Eug-lug] Setting up DNS

[Jacob Meuser]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 08:54:43AM -0700, Garl Grigsby wrote:
> Bob Miller wrote:
> 
> >Garl Grigsby wrote:
> >
> > 
> >
> >>DNS request timed out.
> >>  timeout was 2 seconds.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >That's too short.  Try 10-20 seconds.
> >
> >(Sorry, I don't know how to tune that using BIND.)
> >
> > 
> >
> Sorry, I guess I didn't make it clear, but I think the timeout is on the 
> windows side, which is where people are doing their web browsing.  When 
> I use dig on the server I don't see the timeout, it just takes a while. 
> In fact I don't know if dig will ever time out.

I think it's 5 seconds by default.  use +time=%d to change.

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