speed up bind9?

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Thu Sep 8 07:06:15 PDT 2005


Jerod Prothe wrote:
> The single dns I am running resolves...eventually.  I have not set up a 
> secondary name server (caching) but I plan to. Our proxy server is querying
> my one-and-only dns but often queries time out. Is there a way to optimize
> the performance of the dns?

Why, yes.  Use the "forwarders" directive to point your nameserver to another 
DNS server (which should be larger and better connected).

However, a lightly loaded DNS server ought to run just fine unless there is a 
problem somewhere.  Are you having path MTU problems, or do you have a firewall 
somewhere which might be blocking TCP port 53 or something like that?

-- 
-Chuck



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