From: George Thessalonikefs Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 10:47:01 +0000 (+0200) Subject: - Update documentation for 'outbound-msg-retry:'. X-Git-Tag: release-1.16.2~5 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=309e23515e92348f7d71c8924d0d59f3fe9a04b8;p=thirdparty%2Funbound.git - Update documentation for 'outbound-msg-retry:'. --- diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog index e7746ad78..a04cdcb3c 100644 --- a/doc/Changelog +++ b/doc/Changelog @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ +19 July 2022: George + - Update documentation for 'outbound-msg-retry:'. + 15 July 2022: Wouter - Merge PR 714: Avoid treat normal hosts as unresponsive servers. And fixup the lock code. diff --git a/doc/example.conf.in b/doc/example.conf.in index f23a088e1..0df0c3460 100644 --- a/doc/example.conf.in +++ b/doc/example.conf.in @@ -168,7 +168,8 @@ server: # perform connect for UDP sockets to mitigate ICMP side channel. # udp-connect: yes - # The number of retries when a non-positive response is received. + # The number of retries, per upstream nameserver in a delegation, when + # a throwaway response (also timeouts) is received. # outbound-msg-retry: 5 # msec for waiting for an unknown server to reply. Increase if you diff --git a/doc/unbound.conf.5.in b/doc/unbound.conf.5.in index 4e687e458..e06895056 100644 --- a/doc/unbound.conf.5.in +++ b/doc/unbound.conf.5.in @@ -1758,9 +1758,12 @@ set ip\-ratelimit to a suspicious rate to aggressively limit unusually high traffic. Default is off. .TP 5 .B outbound\-msg\-retry: \fI -The number of retries Unbound will do in case of a non positive response is -received. If a forward nameserver is used, this is the number of retries per -forward nameserver in case of throwaway response. +The number of retries, per upstream nameserver in a delegation, that Unbound +will attempt in case a throwaway response is received. +No response (timeout) contributes to the retry counter. +If a forward/stub zone is used, this is the number of retries per nameserver in +the zone. +Default is 5. .TP 5 .B fast\-server\-permil: \fI Specify how many times out of 1000 to pick from the set of fastest servers.