Re: [EXIM] dns retrans/retries

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Sherwood Botsford
CC: Exim List
Subject: Re: [EXIM] dns retrans/retries
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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