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

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> esr at thyrsus.com said:
> > There's a timeout option, but it seems to apply to the wait for SNTP reply,
> > not the wait for DNS. 
> 
> I was thinking of an overall timeout.  Something like:
>   If you can't set the time within N seconds, bail with an error return code 
> and I'll try something else.

Nothing like that is documented.
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