Re: Per query timeouts

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, William Ahern wrote:

> The timeout is relative to the logical query, not to each server. So that,
> if you pass a query timeout of 10 seconds, but the ares channel is
> configured for a server timeout of 3 seconds, a try count of 2, and 2 hosts
> in resolv.conf you'd actually be cutting short the query by 2 seconds (from
> 12 to 10).

It certainly sounds like a fair feature to add. Any idea on how it could be
done public API-wise?

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