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| -rw-r--r-- | man5/resolv.conf.5 | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man5/resolv.conf.5 b/man5/resolv.conf.5 index 553f0939ec..241565da83 100644 --- a/man5/resolv.conf.5 +++ b/man5/resolv.conf.5 @@ -161,7 +161,10 @@ The value for this option is silently capped to 15. .\" Since glibc 2.2 Sets the amount of time the resolver will wait for a response from a remote name server before retrying the -query via a different name server. +query via a different name server. This may +.BR not +be the total time taken by any resolver API call and there is no +guarantee that a single resolver API call maps to a single timeout. Measured in seconds, the default is .BR RES_TIMEOUT |