The resolver is in glibc, so there's no /proc entry or anything to twiddle as it's not in the kernel. Try setting the RES_TIMEOUT environment variable which should be used by res_init which initializes the resolver. See http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/aix/libs/commtrf2/res_init.htm and try an altavista search on +resolver +timeout good luck -mark Lee Chin <leechinus@yahoo.com> [01/05/11 16:24]: > Hi, > gethostbyname just takes too long once in a while on > certain sites... is there a way to set a time out for > gethostbyname? > > I tried this: > act.sa_flags = SA_NOMASK; > act.sa_handler = connect_timeout; > sigaction(SIGALRM, &act, NULL); > alarm(DNS_TIMEOUT); > hostentry = gethostbyname(host); > alarm(0); > > but when the alarm happened, I got a SIGSEGV in > gethostbyname > > Thanks > Lee > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
