timeout

Parameters

seconds

Specifies the number of seconds to wait for a response from a remote DNS server. If the query fails, the appliance attempts the query to a different DNS server that is determined by the load balance algorithm. The default value is 5.

Guidelines

The timeout command sets the time to wait before the next query attempt. Use this command only when the load-balancing algorithm is first-alive. Any value set with the timeout command is ignored when the load balancing algorithm is round-robin.

With the retries command, the timeout command specifies the amount of time that the appliance attempts to resolve DNS server queries.