[Tickets #7374] Re: speed up hostname lookups on broken DNS

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7374
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  Ticket             | 7374
  Updated By         | Matt Selsky <selsky at columbia.edu>
  Summary            | speed up hostname lookups on broken DNS
  Queue              | Horde Framework Packages
  Version            | HEAD
  Type               | Enhancement
  State              | Assigned
  Priority           | 2. Medium
  Milestone          | 3.3.1
  Patch              | 1
  Owners             | Horde Developers
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Matt Selsky <selsky at columbia.edu> (2008-11-09 15:04) wrote:

Is there a real advantage to bothering to retry?  Is it more likely to  
work if tried again?  I think we are just trying to avoid waiting for  
a DNS server that will never respond, so a single try, with any  
timeout shorter than 60 seconds would put it in a better situation.