dns lookup timing cycling up and down

[Joel Nimety]

We had significant latency due to ipv6 being enabled on the server.
Adding the -4 flag to named didn't help either, we had to disable the
ipv6 module in the kernel.

rsesnaski at yahoo.com wrote:
> I've got a RHEL4 ES Update1 host running bind 9.2.4. My DNS lookup
> times seem to be cycling up and down. Everything is fine for awhile
> and then everything slows down and I start getting timeouts. I'm not
> asking for the solution but does anyone know what areas to start
> looking in or how to turn on some logging where I can get lookup
> times. I'm no bind guru and this thing is driving me nuts.
> 
> I'm running it in a chroot'ed /var/named/chroot/var/named directory,
> how
> easy is this to turn off, just copy the files up to /var/named and turn
> off the chroot option in /etc/sysconfig/named. I think running it in a
> chroot environment doesn't allow me to hook to it with an strace -p.
> 
> Ron
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Joel Nimety
Perimeter Internetworking Corp.




--9B095B5ADSN=_01C62670194DF0AE000000F5orinoco--

______________________________________________________________________
This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System.
For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email 
______________________________________________________________________