File man-pages-resolv.conf.patch of Package man-pages.openSUSE_11.4_Update
--- man5/resolv.conf.5 +++ man5/resolv.conf.5 @@ -231,6 +231,19 @@ in .IR _res.options . This enables support for the DNS extensions described in RFC\ 2671. +.TP +.BR single-request " (since glibc 2.10)" +sets +.BR RES_SNGLKUP +in +.IR _res.options . +By default, glibc performs IPv4 and IPv6 lookups in parallel since +version 2.9 (though many distribution packages of glibc are known +to disable that behavior in this version). Some appliance DNS servers +cannot handle these queries properly and make the requests time out. +This option disables the behavior and makes glibc perform the IPv6 +and IPv4 requests sequentially (at the cost of some slowdown of the +resolving process). .RE .LP The \fIdomain\fP and \fIsearch\fP keywords are mutually exclusive.