Provided are a method, system, and program for querying a plurality of adaptors in a system. A request is received to determine connection information for the adaptors in the system. A master task spawns a plurality of tasks to query the adaptors. Each spawned task updates adaptor information with information gathered from querying the adaptor. If no tasks are available to query at least one adaptor that has not been queried, then the master task queries one adaptor and updates the adaptor information with information gathered by querying the adaptor.