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Update resolv.conf(5) "not necessary" language.

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While there, fix mandoc -T lint warnings.

PR:		262492

Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37449

MFC after:	1 week

Reviewed by:	gjb

Approved by:	gjb (mentor)
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@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" @(#)resolver.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd November 7, 2022
.Dd November 19, 2022
.Dt RESOLVER 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ The file is designed to be human readable and contains a list of
keywords with values that provide various types of resolver information.
.Pp
On a normally configured system this file should not be necessary.
The only name server to be queried will be on the local machine,
The only name server(s) to be queried will be on the local machine
or automatically configured using DHCP or a similar mechanism,
the domain name is determined from the host name,
and the domain search path is constructed from the domain name.
.Pp
@ -132,7 +133,7 @@ in _res.options.
sets
.Dv RES_USEVC
to use TCP instead of UDP for queries.
.It Sy ndots: Ns Ar n
.It Sy ndots : Ns Ar n
sets a threshold for the number of dots which must appear in a name given to
.Fn res_query
(see
@ -148,7 +149,7 @@ meaning that if there are any dots in a name, the name
will be tried first as an absolute name before any
.Em search list
elements are appended to it.
.It Sy timeout: Ns Ar n
.It Sy timeout : Ns Ar n
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.
@ -161,7 +162,7 @@ the allowed maximum is
.Dv RES_MAXRETRANS
(see
.In resolv.h ) .
.It Sy attempts: Ns Ar n
.It Sy attempts : Ns Ar n
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.
@ -180,7 +181,7 @@ the resolver from obeying the standard
and
.Sy search
rules with the given name.
.It Sy reload-period: Ns Ar n
.It Sy reload-period : Ns Ar n
The resolver checks the modification time of
.Pa /etc/resolv.conf
every