Search Again: Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, November 4, 2004 Time: 12:13:59 pm At 1:41 PM -0500 11/4/04, John May wrote: >>At 11:09 AM +0200 11/4/04, Kaj Hjorth wrote: >>>Hello list, >>>this has certainly been addressed before >>>so excuse a dumb question. >>> >>>What do we benefit from updating to 9.3.0 >> >>BIND 9.2.x doesn't have a reliable way to disable IPv6 support in >>the resolver routine. This causes a problem with certain BSD-based >>operating systems, such as Mac OS X, whose IPv6 support has some >>sort of problem. When named version 9.2.x tries to contact another >>server whose hostname has an AAAA record, in addition to an A >>record, the connection fails only after several seconds, long >>enough that most web browsers time out. >> >>For most of the Internet, IPv6 isn't yet working, so this >>connection attempt will pretty much always fail. Ideally, it should >>fail immediately. >> >>BIND 9.3.0 has an undocumented "-4" command line option that can >>disable IPv6 support at runtime. >> >>>and where can one see the Bind version currently in use? >> >>Use this shell command: >> >>/usr/sbin/named -v >> >>If your named is not in /usr/sbin, it's probably in /usr/local/sbin. >> >>Chris Buxton >>Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy >>Customer Service and Sales Engineer > > >Chris - > >So, do you suggest upgrading? If so, will Men and Mice be issuing a >QuickDNS update to include BIND 9.3.0? Upgrade if you're having this problem and don't want to use forwarding. Forwarding queries to another server (one that's not affected by this problem, such as a Linux server) should also solve the problem, if our current understanding of the problem is correct. We haven't yet decided exactly what we're going to do. Hopefully Apple will fix this in the kernel soon. Chris Buxton Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy Customer Service and Sales Engineer

Messages In This Thread: Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by Kaj Hjorth on Nov 4, 2004 at 1:10:24 am Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by Men & Mice Support on Nov 4, 2004 at 10:20:32 am Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by John May on Nov 4, 2004 at 10:42:46 am Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by Men & Mice Support on Nov 4, 2004 at 12:13:59 pm Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by John May on Nov 4, 2004 at 3:37:29 pm Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by Men & Mice Support on Nov 4, 2004 at 3:58:05 pm Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by John May on Nov 4, 2004 at 7:26:34 pm Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by Men & Mice Support on Nov 4, 2004 at 7:54:38 pm