git: 1288a10af617 - stable/12 - Update resolv.conf(5) "not necessary" language.
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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 19:17:13 UTC
The branch stable/12 has been updated by pauamma (doc committer): URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=1288a10af617884ce3104e84f71b09df27d07d8d commit 1288a10af617884ce3104e84f71b09df27d07d8d Author: Pau Amma <pauamma@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2022-11-21 00:19:55 +0000 Commit: Pau Amma <pauamma@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2022-11-30 19:09:32 +0000 Update resolv.conf(5) "not necessary" language. While there, fix mandoc -T lint warnings. PR: 262492 Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37449 MFC after: 1 week Reviewed by: gjb Approved by: gjb (mentor) (cherry picked from commit e8261bba4e18ab95fe958e195b07a66df1b8d855) Clarify what's normally not required. Reported by: karels Reviewed by: carlavilla, karels (informally) Approved by: carlavilla (mentor), gjb (mentor, implicitly) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37483 (cherry picked from commit 06703946d0be0baaf0f2a88f85e2dd5354e861da) --- share/man/man5/resolver.5 | 16 +++++++++------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/share/man/man5/resolver.5 b/share/man/man5/resolver.5 index e2c78e8a3bc9..a0c1aea24b88 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/resolver.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/resolver.5 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)resolver.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd November 7, 2022 +.Dd November 23, 2022 .Dt RESOLVER 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -46,8 +46,10 @@ by the resolver routines the first time they are invoked by a process. The file is designed to be human readable and contains a list of keywords with values that provide various types of resolver information. .Pp -On a normally configured system this file should not be necessary. -The only name server to be queried will be on the local machine, +On a normally configured system, setting this file manually should not +be necessary. +The only name server(s) to be queried will be on the local machine +or automatically configured using DHCP or a similar mechanism, the domain name is determined from the host name, and the domain search path is constructed from the domain name. .Pp @@ -132,7 +134,7 @@ in _res.options. sets .Dv RES_USEVC to use TCP instead of UDP for queries. -.It Sy ndots: Ns Ar n +.It Sy ndots : Ns Ar n sets a threshold for the number of dots which must appear in a name given to .Fn res_query (see @@ -148,7 +150,7 @@ meaning that if there are any dots in a name, the name will be tried first as an absolute name before any .Em search list elements are appended to it. -.It Sy timeout: Ns Ar n +.It Sy timeout : Ns Ar n sets the initial amount of time the resolver will wait for a response from a remote name server before retrying the query via a different name server. @@ -161,7 +163,7 @@ the allowed maximum is .Dv RES_MAXRETRANS (see .In resolv.h ) . -.It Sy attempts: Ns Ar n +.It Sy attempts : Ns Ar n sets the number of times the resolver will send a query to each of its name servers before giving up and returning an error to the calling application. @@ -180,7 +182,7 @@ the resolver from obeying the standard and .Sy search rules with the given name. -.It Sy reload-period: Ns Ar n +.It Sy reload-period : Ns Ar n The resolver checks the modification time of .Pa /etc/resolv.conf every