DNS problems this morning -

[Rick Stevens]

On 11/13/2012 10:04 AM, Tim issued this missive:
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> My reading of the man file suggested that one would add the options into
> the resolv.conf file.  Else why else are they mentioned in the man file
> for it?
>
> e.g.
> /etc/resolv.conf
> domain lan.example.com.
> search lan.example.com.
> nameserver 192.168.1.2
> options timeout:1
>
> But what would the syntax be?  Like I've tried, above?  Are there any
> samples in your man file?

That's the right syntax, but since you only have one name server 
specified the timeout would be essentially ignored.
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