resolver timeout + application timeout : LDAP and slow prim. nameserver ..

[Brad Knowles]

At 3:06 PM +0200 2005-08-12, Claus van de Vlierd wrote:

>     b) unfortunately sometimes our prim. nameserver answers rather slowly

	So list the secondary nameserver first.

>     c) HOW can we change that (besides of course making the prim. nameserver
>      quicker ..) ?!

	Either list the secondary nameserver first, or fix the primary nameserver.

>      is there any possibility in the "/etc/resolv.conf" (under RedHat AS3) to
>      give a "timeout" shorter than the timeout for the application
>       (like e.g. "sendmail") so that the application "has still time"
>      to switch to the sec. nameserver ?!

	Not unless you want change the source code to sendmail, and the 
other applications, etc....

	You can't fix this from within the resolver.

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