Reduce DNS lookup timeout from 28s to 8s
authorRemco Rijnders <remmy@serenity-irc.net>
Sat, 7 Mar 2026 17:17:36 +0000 (12:17 -0500)
committerRemco Rijnders <remmy@serenity-irc.net>
Sat, 7 Mar 2026 17:17:36 +0000 (12:17 -0500)
commit03962dd47ac4dd2979a7e51a76415c18af91e740
treed13784d0417d5dd4436a8775f1dbeb2da6f32d98
parentff96d3c3a64ecd548e94f9bf8e32e4273154df7f
Reduce DNS lookup timeout from 28s to 8s

The resolver used 3 retries starting at 4s with exponential backoff
(4+8+16 = 28 seconds), which made connecting painfully slow when
reverse DNS fails (common for residential IPv6). Reduce to 1 retry:
first attempt at 3s, retry at 5s (8 seconds total).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
src/res.c