Traditionally (in the Berkeley code) the timeouts in the stub resolver in libc are 3x longer than the timeouts in the iterative resolver in the recursive server

Traditionally (in the Berkeley code) the timeouts in the stub resolver in libc are 3x longer than the timeouts in the iterative resolver in the recursive server. I don’t think this is specified or that the RFCs even have much to say about timeout periods or retry counts.