BIND8, BIND9 and INETD services on AIX

[David Botham]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of alberto.colosi at sistinf.it
> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 1:22 PM
> Cc: bind-users at isc.org; bind-users-bounce at isc.org
> Subject: BIND8, BIND9 and INETD services on AIX
> 
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> Hi, I have several DNS with BIND 8.2.3 and some with BIND 9.2.1
> 
> Version 8 is on UNIX and Version 9 is on NT
> 
> I have several AIX UNIX machines
> 
> If /etc/resolv.conf   point to a UNIX BIND 8.2.3 the INETD (FTP and
TELNET
> prompts to logon) are fast
> 
> If /etc/resolv.conf   point to a WINDOWS NT 4.0 SERVER BIND 8.2.3 the
> INETD
> (FTP and TELNET prompts to logon) are REALLY SLOW to have the prompt
> around
> 10 or 12 seconds

Sounds to me like a reverse DNS issue.  When you connect to a unix
system via telnet, ftp, etc..., the server makes a log entry about that
fact.  By default, most servers will perform a reverse lookup on the
source IP address of the connection, to be able to make log entries in
terms of hostnames (instead of just IP addresses).


Make sure that both of your servers are authoritative for the
in-addr.arap zones (the "reverse" zones) that are associated with the IP
address space on your network.  The most likely problem is that you do
not have these zones loaded on your NT system.


Thanks,


Dave...


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> WHY?
> 
> BIND 9 and BIND 8   named.conf    files are the same the same zones
and
> the
> same of all!.
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> 
> Best regards,
> Alberto Colosi
> IBM Global  Services
> Sistemi Informativi S.P.A.
> IT Division
> NCC GRUPPO Sistemi Informativi
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