From 309e23515e92348f7d71c8924d0d59f3fe9a04b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: George Thessalonikefs Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 12:47:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] - Update documentation for 'outbound-msg-retry:'. --- doc/Changelog | 3 +++ doc/example.conf.in | 3 ++- doc/unbound.conf.5.in | 9 ++++++--- 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) 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. -- 2.47.2