Host command timing out sporadically

[btb at bitrate.net]

On May 02, 2012, at 18.41, Paul Marais wrote:

> So it looks like I just need to make postfix use a longer timeout perhaps.

or, you could just not use your isp's nameservers, and let bind do what it does.  it's unlikely that your isp's nameservers are doing you great favors, if any at all.  either way, recursion needs to be allowed for any clients [this includes localhost] which expect to be able to look up arbitrary information in dns.

-ben