https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38542 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED CC| |mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx Resolution| |CODE_FIX --- Comment #1 from Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> 2012-04-23 12:15:36 --- Patch from Petr Baudis applied for man-pages-3.40: --- a/man5/resolv.conf.5 +++ b/man5/resolv.conf.5 @@ -231,6 +231,19 @@ sets in .IR _res.options . This enables support for the DNS extensions described in RFC\ 2671. +.TP +.BR single-request " (since glibc 2.10)" +sets +.BR RES_SNGLKUP +in +.IR _res.options . +By default, glibc performs IPv4 and IPv6 lookups in parallel since +version 2.9. +Some appliance DNS servers +cannot handle these queries properly and make the requests time out. +This option disables the behavior and makes glibc perform the IPv6 +and IPv4 requests sequentially (at the cost of some slowdown of the +resolving process). .RE .LP The \fIdomain\fP and \fIsearch\fP keywords are mutually exclusive. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html