Out of the frying pan...

[Chuck Swiger]

John wrote:
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> Well, I have a local-caching DNS server running on my gateway/NAT/
> firewall FreeBSD system.  DHCP is correctly populating /etc/resolv.conf
> with the correct value.  SOME web sites work great, others show
> this very bawky behaivor.  A Windows laptop running on the same
> network referring to the same local DNS server has no such problem.
> I can set them up side-by-side, and the results are deterministic
> and predictable.

Try restarting named using the -4 flag to restrict it to doing IPv4 queries 
only, rather than permitting IPv6 as well, and see whether that makes a 
difference.

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-Chuck