timeout problem

[Barry Margolin]

In article <39075c22$0$13543 at wodc7nh1.news.uu.net>,
Rossen Raykov <rraykov at sage-consult.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am running named 8.2.2-P5 on SPARK Solaris 7 box behind a firewall (Linux
>with ipchains).
>When I try to resolve some domains using nslookup the first response is:
>can't find xxx.yyy.zzz: Non-existent host/domain
>When I repeat this 2 or 3 times it returns the correct IP address.
>I've set timeout to 20 (default is 5) and retry to 5 (default 2) inside
>nslookup and seems it was OK.
>
>My question is how to make this settings permanent for the operating system?
>I've try with this additional lines in my /etc/resolv.conf
>options retrans:20
>options retry:5
>... but it seems like this have not affected the system.

You're fixing the wrong thing.  You should try to find out why it's taking
so long for the lookups to succeed in the first place.  There's no reason
that a properly configured system should timeout so much.

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