On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> I don't think you want to mess with DNS timeouts.
That was my gut feeling too.
> I don't think you want to wrap an alarm() call around it either. I
> think the internal timeouts may be implemented with alarm() itself on
> some types of systems....
That also agrees with my gut feeling.
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