Name resolution performance in BIND9

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 03:16:51PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Sean Page, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> I am finding that BIND9 (installed to replace the base install of
> BIND) is taking from 4-8 seconds to resolve a name that isn't
> cached, where the same lookup on BIND8 will occur in less than a
> second.

FWIW, this is a recent thing; I've run the same version of BIND9 for
ages, and this just started about the time some servers added v6
addresses (but that isn't the cause; I don't know what is).


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