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Min: 1. Max: 120000. Default: 1000 (1sec)
First appeared: 0.4.7.5-alpha.
- "exit_dns_num_attempts" -- Number of resolving attempts an Exit sets
- libevent which controls how many times libevent will retry until declaring
- it an error (timeout). The corresponding libevent option is "attempts:".
+ "exit_dns_num_attempts" -- How many attempts _after the first_ should an
+ Exit should try a timing-out DNS query before calling it hopeless? (Each of
+ these attempts will wait for "exit_dns_timeout" independently). The
+ corresponding libevent option is "attempts:".
Min: 0. Max: 255. Default: 2
First appeared: 0.4.7.5-alpha.