Improve the description of "timeout" and "attempts" resolver
options to avoid user confusion from now on. PR: bin/62139 (inspired by)
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.\" @(#)resolver.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd December 7, 2003
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.Dd September 9, 2004
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.Dt RESOLVER 5
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Em search list
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elements are appended to it.
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.It Sy timeout: Ns Ar n
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sets the amount of time the resolver will wait for a response from a remote
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sets the initial amount of time the resolver will wait
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for a response from a remote
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name server before retrying the query via a different name server.
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The resolver may wait longer during subsequent retries
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of the current query since an exponential back-off is applied to
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the timeout value.
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Measured in seconds, the default is
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.Dv RES_TIMEOUT
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.Dv RES_TIMEOUT ,
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the allowed maximum is
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.Dv RES_MAXRETRANS
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(see
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.In resolv.h ) .
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.It Sy attempts: Ns Ar n
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sets the number of times the resolver will send a query to its name servers
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sets the number of times the resolver will send a query to each of
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its name servers
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before giving up and returning an error to the calling application.
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The default is
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.Dv RES_DFLRETRY
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.Dv RES_DFLRETRY ,
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the allowed maximum is
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.Dv RES_MAXRETRY
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(see
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.In resolv.h ) .
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.It Sy no_tld_query
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