Why do your web servers rely on DNS at all? If your config file doesn't specify HostNameLookup on, and you always use dotted quad notation, the server shouldn't ever use the DNS server. If it does, I would consider that a showstopper.
Ryan ---------------------------------------------- Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] 645 Howard St. [EMAIL PROTECTED] San Francisco, CA > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Holsman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 9:54 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [RFC] -- adding DNS timeout/retry directives to the core > > we got bit by this on one of our high-load development servers. > the DNS server hung, and all the webserver ground to a halt. > > in 1.3 we had a custom module which tweaked the resolver's > retransmission time interval & #times to retransmit options > (in the global structure _res on most unixes) > > > now the questions.. > is this kind of thing available on win32/os2/beos etc? > should this be a APR-function of just a auto-conf option? > > cheers > Ian
