My Introduction and current issues -

[bind9 at clearviz.biz]

Howdy all!.   My name is Arnold, and I'm new to both Bind9 and to the 
Bind user's list. I'm hoping to contribute my findings on the use of 
Bind9. in the future but, for now, I need some help in getting my 1st 
install of Bind 9.18 performing well. It does run already, but does not 
perform well at all. I'll explain.

First, a quick bit of history. I run a home network (a full domain 
structure) and, for the past 23 years, I ran a server (Windows Server 
2003) as a full Primary Domain Controller in my home network. I ran 
DHCP, DNS and AD on that server. It worked great and had extremely fast 
responses for DNS forwarding. Very rarely was there ever a failure (i.e. 
"Site not found" or "No Internet Access") etc. And it ran great for 
almost 23 years.... Until this past Easter Sunday, when it died a nasty 
hardware death. I deemed it unworthy of repairing. This because, 2 years 
ago, I began building two new mid-tower machines (Intel coreI7 and was 
going to install Ubuntu Server (22.04) on one and the 22.04 client on  
the other. I completed the client machine and it is up and running 
perfectly. I held off on the server as my Win2003 server was still 
running. But not anymore.

I resumed the build of the Ubuntu Server (22.04). I installed 
ISC-DHCP-Server for DHCP (I know Kea is available but I read where that 
needs Ubuntu 24.xx+). I also installed Bind9.18 as the DNS server. The 
DHCP server is working perfectly.  No issues at all. Very happy with it. 
  The Bind9.18, not so much.   BTW, I'll deal with an AD replacement 
later if at all (Samba, Kerberos or something similar).

The following are the behavioral symptoms of the current Bind9.18 
install.

  	* Links/URLs -  Links/URLs submitted in a browser (especially a link 
not used before or not after a long while) often take a very long time 
to render and often fail with a "Can't access that site" or "No Internet 
Access" error. if I keep refreshing the same link/URL multiple times, 
eventually the webpage will render correctly. And the site will continue 
to render correctly as long as I keep it active by clicking other links, 
etc. on the page.  But once there has been a period of inactivity 
(usually 1/2 to 1 hr), it goes back to the original behavior, requiring 
another cycle of "refreshes" and "site not found" errors, before it 
renders correctly again. That said, I'm starting to see continuity on 
the URLs/Links I use on a daily basis (i.e. only once a day).
  	* When using "ping," if I ping the hard IP, it works correctly. If I 
use the domain name with Ping, it fails on a "name resolution" error. 
However, using "nslookup" with the same domain names does work 
correctly. Cannot use traceroute as it is not presently installed and 
attempting to install it gives "Temporary failure resolving the ubuntu 
archive DBs.
  	* Devices that had connected to my Wireless access point (WAP) that 
are "DNS dependent" also fail due to "No Internet access," including my 
smartphone in Wifi Mode. My phone does not fail when in "5G" mode, but 
that's expensive.   FTR, my router is "wired" but I have a WAP connected 
to it via Ethernet. Devices that connect to it can get DHCP service, but 
fail when DNS is attempted. My laptops do not connect via WiFi anymore. 
I can get one of my laptops connected if I 'Tether" it to my smartphone 
while in "5G" mode.

All of the above leads me to believe that Bind 9 may not be configured 
correctly to allow for the best possible performance/response times by 
the forwarding servers (8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1). I have attached my 
named.conf.options file and .local file. The named.conf file only has 
includes for .options and ,local conf files.  The .default-zones file is 
commented out.

If you need other info about my configuration and setup, please feel 
free to ask and I'll do my best to provide it.

Thank you all so much and I look forward to learning from you.

Regards,
Arnold
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