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RE: gethostbyname

To: 'David Milburn' <dmilburn at redhat dot com>, "'crossgcc at sources dot redhat dot com'" <crossgcc at sources dot redhat dot com>
Subject: RE: gethostbyname
From: Yves Rutschle <y dot rutschle at indigovision dot com>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 17:34:35 -0000
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> Is the number of retries configurable?

Yes, it's all in resolv.conf(5):
option attempts:1
to only have one attempt. You can change timeouts, order of scan,
pretty much everything you can think of.

> I am using glibc 2.1.3, can you recommend any specific code 
> that I should be
> looking at in the resolv directory to help understand exactly what is
> happening?

The proper way to go is probably to use the configuration files before
changing the code (but then, maybe I say that only because I don't
know where to look in the glibc :-) ).

HTH,
Yves

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