On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Sherwood Botsford wrote:
>
> Being such a clever bunt, and noticing that netscape frequently
> was successful on the second attempt to find a host, when the first
> was unsuccessful, I decided to try
> dns_retrans = 30
> dns_retrys = 2
>
> Thinking that with 30 seconds, it would have time to get cached
> somewhere in between.
>
> Alas and alack on hpux I get a
> 1998-01-28 14:24:02 Exim configuration error
> invalid time value for dns_retrans in line 17
>
> in the panic log.
RTFM, section 7.6. What you need is
dns_retrans = 30s
dns_retry = 2s
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