Re: BIND9 very slow resolving external addresses

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> Amadeus Stevenson wrote:
> [ ... ]
>> It takes about a second or two to resolve external addresses, which is
>> slowing things down a lot. Once cached it is much faster. Do you have
>> any ideas what I am doing wrong? This happens from the gateway itself
>> as well as from every natted box. I never used to have this problem
>> before:
>
> Consider invoking named with the -4 option to restrict BIND to doing IPv4
> queries only, rather than also trying to do IPv6 queries, and see whether
> that makes any difference.

I was about to mention that there is supposed to be a bug in recent bind
(what version I forgot) where ipv6 queries eat up time on systems where
ipv6 is not available. Check the bind list for details.

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