Is there some good reason for ntpdig to be doing asynchronous DNS?

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> Another possibility is that there is an option to bail after N seconds.  If 
> you are using it to set the time during booting, you might not want to wait 
> for DNS to timeout.  DNS timeouts on this system are ballpark of 30 seconds.

There's a timeout option, but it seems to apply to the wait for SNTP reply,
not the wait for DNS.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>