Search Again: Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 From: John May Date: Thursday, November 4, 2004 Time: 3:37:29 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 I guess I'm still confused. How do I know if I have the problem? Do I have to be using my DNS servers for resolving domain names, instead of just providing DNS info for clients? - John -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- John May : President <http://www.pointinspace.com> Point In Space Internet Solutions jmay@pointinspace.com Professional Lasso / PHP / MySQL / FileMaker Pro Hosting

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