BIND 8.4.5 as cache server, long delay to resolve some domains...

[rene mathis]

Starting named with -4 was probably the solution. The respons time is now
better when doing recursive queries. Now I understand why I did not see any
query in my tcpdump.
Thank You

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 03:07:34 +0900, JINMEI Tatuya / $B?@L at C#:H(B wrote
> >>>>> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:22:19 +0200, 
> >>>>> "rene mathis" <rene at solosaina.ch> said:
> 
> > Before I was using BIND 9.2.1 (and 9.2.3) and there the Name Server was
> > sometimes waiting for 2 seconds before sending a recursive query to another
> > nameserver on the internet (not only root servers).
> 
> This is perhaps due to a known problem that the BIND9 caching server
> can try to use IPv6 transport (with a 2-sec-or-more delay) even when
> the server itself does not have IPv6 connectivity.  A workaround is 
> to use the -4 option of BIND 9.3.x (if you don't need IPv6 transport)
> .  A more essential fix will appear in BIND 9.3.1 (it's already available
> in 9.3.0beta2)
> 
> 					JINMEI, Tatuya
> 					Communication Platform Lab.
> 					Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
> 					jinmei at isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp


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Rene Mathis
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