--- lftp-3.3.5/src/resource.cc.bz173276	2005-11-08 02:21:19.000000000 -0500
+++ lftp-3.3.5/src/resource.cc	2005-12-21 13:44:59.000000000 -0500
@@ -338,10 +338,12 @@
    res_cache_enable("dns:cache-enable", "yes", ResMgr::BoolValidate,0),
    res_cache_expire("dns:cache-expire", "1h",  ResMgr::TimeIntervalValidate,0),
    res_cache_size  ("dns:cache-size",   "256", ResMgr::UNumberValidate,ResMgr::NoClosure),
-   res_timeout	   ("dns:fatal-timeout","0",   ResMgr::UNumberValidate,0),
+   res_timeout	   ("dns:fatal-timeout","0",   ResMgr::TimeIntervalValidate,0),
    res_order	   ("dns:order",	DEFAULT_ORDER, OrderValidate,0),
    res_query_srv   ("dns:SRV-query",    "no",  ResMgr::BoolValidate,0),
-   res_use_fork	   ("dns:use-fork",     "yes", ResMgr::BoolValidate,ResMgr::NoClosure);
+   res_use_fork	   ("dns:use-fork",     "yes", ResMgr::BoolValidate,ResMgr::NoClosure),
+   res_use_first   ("dns:use-first-address", "yes", ResMgr::BoolValidate,ResMgr::NoClosure),
+   res_n_attempts  ("dns:max-retries",   "1000",   ResMgr::UNumberValidate,0);
 
 static ResDecl
    fish_shell  ("fish:shell", "/bin/sh",  0,0),
--- lftp-3.3.5/src/Resolver.cc.bz173276	2005-11-08 01:17:11.000000000 -0500
+++ lftp-3.3.5/src/Resolver.cc	2005-12-21 13:54:41.000000000 -0500
@@ -505,6 +505,8 @@
    time_t try_time;
    unsigned char answer[0x1000];
    char *srv_name=string_alloca(strlen(service)+1+strlen(tproto)+1+strlen(hostname)+1);
+   int retries=0;
+   int max_retries=ResMgr::Query("dns:max-retries",hostname);
    sprintf(srv_name,"_%s._%s.%s",service,tproto,hostname);
 
    int len;
@@ -523,6 +525,8 @@
 #ifdef HAVE_H_ERRNO
       if(h_errno!=TRY_AGAIN)
 	 return;
+      if(++retries>=max_retries && max_retries)
+	 return;
       time_t t=time(0);
       if(t-try_time<5)
 	 sleep(5-(t-try_time));
@@ -682,6 +686,10 @@
    time_t try_time;
    int af_index=0;
    int af_order[16];
+   int af_tries[16];
+   int af_try=0, af_tried=0;
+   int dns_use_first =ResMgr::QueryBool("dns:use-first-address",name),
+       dns_n_attempts=ResMgr::Query("dns:max-retries",name);
 
    const char *order=ResMgr::Query("dns:order",name);
 
@@ -698,6 +706,8 @@
    }
 
    ParseOrder(order,af_order);
+   
+   memset(af_tries, 0, sizeof(af_tries));
 
    for(;;)
    {
@@ -778,8 +788,24 @@
 #else // !HAVE_GETADDRINFO
 
       int af=af_order[af_index];
+      
       if(af==-1)
-	 break;
+      {
+	  if((timeout == 0) && (af_tried == 0))
+	      break;
+	  else
+	  {  
+	      af_index = 0;
+	      af_tried = 0;
+	      af = af_order[af_index];
+	  }
+      }
+      
+      if ( af_tries [ af_index ] != -1 )
+      {
+	  if( (dns_n_attempts > 0) && ( af_tries [ af_index ] > dns_n_attempts) )
+	      break;
+	  ++af_tries[ af_index  ];      
 
       struct hostent *ha;
 # if defined(HAVE_GETIPNODEBYNAME)
@@ -801,12 +827,19 @@
       }
 # endif
 
-      if(ha)
+      af_tried = 1;
+
+      if ( ha ) 
       {
 	 const char * const *a;
 	 for(a=ha->h_addr_list; *a; a++)
-	    AddAddress(ha->h_addrtype, *a, ha->h_length);
-	 af_index++;
+	 {
+	     AddAddress(ha->h_addrtype, *a, ha->h_length);
+	     af_tries[ af_index ] = -1;
+	 }
+	 if( (af_tries[ af_index ] == -1) && dns_use_first )
+	     return;
+	 af_index++;	 
 # if defined(HAVE_GETIPNODEBYNAME)
 	 freehostent(ha);
 # endif
@@ -825,14 +858,30 @@
 	    error=_("Host name lookup failure");
 # endif
 	 }
-	 af_index++;
-	 continue; // try other address families
+	 af_tries[ af_index ] = -1;
       }
+      } /* af_tries[ af_index ] != -1 */
+
 #endif /* HAVE_GETADDRINFO */
 
-      time_t t;
-      if((t=time(0))-try_time<5)
-	 sleep(5-(t-try_time));
+      time_t t = time(0);
+      if( timeout && (( t - start_time ) >= (timeout - 1)) )
+      {
+	  return;
+      }else
+      {
+	 af_try = (af_order[af_index+1] == -1) ? 0 : ((af_index + 1) & 0xf);
+	 if( (af_tries[ af_try ] != 0) || (af_tried == 0))
+	 {
+	     if( timeout == 0 )	    
+	     {
+		 if((t-try_time)<5)
+		     sleep(5-(t-try_time));
+	     }else
+		 sleep(1);
+	 }
+	 af_index++;	 
+      }
    }
 }
 
@@ -896,7 +945,7 @@
 
 void Resolver::Reconfig(const char *name)
 {
-   timeout = ResMgr::Query("dns:fatal-timeout",hostname);
+   timeout = TimeInterval(ResMgr::Query("dns:fatal-timeout",hostname));
    if(!name || strncmp(name,"dns:",4))
       return;
    if(cache)
--- lftp-3.3.5/doc/lftp.1.bz173276	2005-12-02 02:23:31.000000000 -0500
+++ lftp-3.3.5/doc/lftp.1	2005-12-21 13:20:24.000000000 -0500
@@ -919,6 +919,20 @@
 .BR dns:use-fork \ (boolean)
 if true, lftp will fork before resolving host address. Default is true.
 .TP
+.BR dns:use-first-address \ (boolean)
+If true (the default), lftp will use the first address returned by a host name lookup;
+if false, lftp will continue trying to find addresses of each address family
+in dns:order until an address of each family is found, is authoritatively 
+known not to exist (as opposed to servers not being contactable), or the
+dns:fatal-timeout (if any) expires. 
+Setting this to true will make lftp use the first available address for a name.
+.TP
+.BR dns:max-retries \ (number)
+If zero, (the default), there is no limit on the number of times lftp will try
+to lookup an address .
+If > 0, lftp will try only this number of times to look up an address of each 
+address family in dns:order .
+.TP
 .BR file:charset \ (string)
 local character set. It is set from current locale initially.
 .TP