options timeout in resolv.conf does not work in stable/10

[Dmitry Sivachenko]

On 19 февр. 2014 г., at 18:08, Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dmitry Sivachenko wrote:
>>> Are you using host(1) command for this?
>> 
>> I used drill(1), which probably also uses ldns and does not respect optons?
> 
> Yup.


This is a sad regression.  Now nagios checks could produce false warnings if first nameserver is down
because drill does not honor option timeout like most other programs :(


> 
>> Also I noticed that drill(1) does not respect nameserver's order from resolv.conf, and picks random one.
>> Which is also strange and disappointing.
> 
> There's a '-z' option to turn this off.
> 


Thanks.  I have no idea why do they randomize it after all...