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Improve the description of "timeout" and "attempts" resolver

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options to avoid user confusion from now on.

PR:		bin/62139 (inspired by)
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yar 2004-09-09 17:19:27 +00:00
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.\" @(#)resolver.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd December 7, 2003
.Dd September 9, 2004
.Dt RESOLVER 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -149,17 +149,26 @@ will be tried first as an absolute name before any
.Em search list
elements are appended to it.
.It Sy timeout: Ns Ar n
sets the amount of time the resolver will wait for a response from a remote
sets the initial amount of time the resolver will wait
for a response from a remote
name server before retrying the query via a different name server.
The resolver may wait longer during subsequent retries
of the current query since an exponential back-off is applied to
the timeout value.
Measured in seconds, the default is
.Dv RES_TIMEOUT
.Dv RES_TIMEOUT ,
the allowed maximum is
.Dv RES_MAXRETRANS
(see
.In resolv.h ) .
.It Sy attempts: Ns Ar n
sets the number of times the resolver will send a query to its name servers
sets the number of times the resolver will send a query to each of
its name servers
before giving up and returning an error to the calling application.
The default is
.Dv RES_DFLRETRY
.Dv RES_DFLRETRY ,
the allowed maximum is
.Dv RES_MAXRETRY
(see
.In resolv.h ) .
.It Sy no_tld_query