bind 8 slow when resolving new domains!

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

> dap99 at i-55.com wrote:
>> I am having a big problem with slow internal DNS (named 8.3.7-REL on
>> FreeBSD 4.9). If we do a query against a local domain (our DNS server
>> is authoratative) then the response is fast. If we do a query against
>> anything in bind's cache the resp. is fast. If we do a query for a new
>> non-local domain then the resp is SLOW or times-out. FYI, we are
>> behind a NetScreen firewall at a colo. The colo promises it is not
>> them. Also, we are using their two DNS servers as forwarders.
> 
>> The colo promises it's not them, but frankly I can't see how it's us.

phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu wrote:
> Stop using forwarding. It can only lengthen your responses.

Well, that's only caused by the way BIND does forwarding now. If it sent
request to forwarders AND tried to do the lookup at once, lookups could be
faster, of course for the price of bigger network usage

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