[SunHELP] gethostbyname timeout ???

[Dale Ghent]

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 duke.glover at verizon.com wrote:

| Hello SUN gods,
|
| Is there such thing as a gethostbyname timeout ?  If there is I would like
| to turn it down (decrease the amount of time it takes to timeout).  I have
| read the man page for gethostbyname, but it appears that it was written
| more for a developer of which I am not.   :)
|
| Can anyone help ?  I am running Solaris 8 on a SUN E450R.

man resolv.conf

the timeouts for DNS lookups are set in there.

/dale