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Re: BIND 9.2.4

From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Friday, November 5, 2004
Time: 11:28:49 am

At 7:17 AM -0500 11/5/04, ITG Lists wrote:
> > >Well, I use our DNS servers for my personal lookups and I haven't
>> >seen anything particularly weird. What specific behavior(s) should
>> >I be looking for to indicate the issue?
>>
>> The problem reported (widely) is that lookups take far too long on
>> the first try. Basically, you put a previously-unvisited website into
>> a web browser, hit return, wait for it to time out (15 seconds or
>> less), try again, and it (typically) works. Sometimes you have to try
>> three or four times.
>>
>> If you're not having that problem, then don't worry about solving it.
>>
>> Chris Buxton
>> Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy
>> Customer Service and Sales Engineer
>
>Hi Chris,
>
>Is this only limited to OS X browsers?

No. The problem is not specific to what software (or even platform)
you use. The problem involves named, the DNS service, contacting
other DNS servers.

>My mail server, listserver, and all web servers on our network use our
>QDNS/Bind 9.2.3 OS X servers for lookups. Are they affected as well?

Yes, they should be.

>PS - I would prefer a "compiled" solution as well.

I'll send it to you off-list.

Chris Buxton
Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy
Customer Service and Sales Engineer



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