--- /tmp/man5_resolv.conf.5-orig	2012-09-11 14:25:26.406461617 -0400
+++ /tmp/man5_resolv.conf.5	2012-09-11 14:29:16.972540431 -0400
@@ -168,6 +168,12 @@
 (currently 2, see \fI<resolv.h>\fP).
 The value for this option is silently capped to 5.
 .TP
+.BR single-request-reopen " (since glibc 2.11)"
+closes the socket and opens a new one before sending a second DNS lookup
+if the first one is not handled correctly. This greatly speeds up lookups
+in broken DNS environments that would otherwise await timeouts before
+rediscovering the need to reset connections in every process. 
+.TP
 .B rotate
 .\" Since glibc 2.2
 sets