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Message-ID: <20250226084210.3c84753c.quinq@fifth.space>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 08:42:10 +0100
From: Quentin Rameau <quinq@...th.space>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] resolvconf: Set minimum timeout value to 1

Hi,

> /etc/resolv.conf has an option to configure the timeout, in seconds,
> that the DNS resolution must wait before considering that resolution to
> have failed. While there is no documentation about what happens when
> that value contains a 0 or negative value, some machines appear to have
> it configured this way.

The question is what was the user intent when setting timeout to 0
or a negative value.
Surely that wouldn't be having a timeout of 1,
because they would have put a timeout of 1.

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