turning on recursion in bind 9.2.2 makes ssh login prompt slow

Alan Clegg Alan_Clegg at isc.org
Wed Jan 16 14:34:11 UTC 2008


r37ribution at gmail.com wrote:
> FYI, this DNS server is on an isolated network so it doesn't need to get out
> to the world. I'm pretty new to BIND and named, so maybe I missed something
> simple?

In this case, you need to create a root hints WITHOUT the "true" roots
in it.

The problem, as others have noted is that you are trying to do inverse
lookups and the queries to the roots are timing out.

AlanC
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