resolver values

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Wed May 1 01:10:39 UTC 2002


"Georgeson, Evan [NCSUS Non J&J]" wrote:

> If someone could point me to an answer to this long query I'd be very
> grateful...
>
> I'm looking for the rules and max. values that are contained in the
> resolv.conf file on both a Solaris 2.6 (BIND 8.2.5)and HPUX 10.20 (BIND
> 4.9.7)system. More specifically, I'm pretty sure you can only have up to 3
> nameserver entries but I don't seem to have a firm value for the number of
> entries you can have in the search line. The resolver man pages weren't
> helpful. Thanks in advance.

I think you can have as many nameservers as you want, but it doesn't really
matter since the resolver will time out before it gets very far. We use 3,
and even then, sometimes the resolver times out before it gets to the third
one.


- Kevin





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