Name resolution performance in BIND9

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Nov 13 02:49:34 GMT 2004


On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 03:16:51PM -0700, Sean Page wrote:
> Greetings list.
> 
> I am running versions of FreeBSD from 4.9.x to 4.10 p3. Let's say for the
> sake of argument that we're dealing with FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2. 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. I've tested on a half a dozen
> servers split between the 2 versions and the results are always the same.
> Some client applications are timing out with this kind of delay. I recently
> updated to BIND 9.3.0 hoping to help the problem to no avail. Has anyone
> else been experiencing this?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I recommend asking on a BIND support list.

Kris
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/attachments/20041112/2dc0645f/attachment.bin


More information about the freebsd-ports mailing list