bind 8 to 9 upgrade question

[Jonathan Chen]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 06:25:54AM -0900, Andy Firman wrote:

[...]
> The new IP address has been registered with the registar
> and all is well on the new box.
> 
> The old box still has a bunch of sites on it that I am in 
> the process of moving to the new box over the next few months.
> The zone files are all correct in pointing the domains 
> to the correct box (IP address).
> 
> On the old box, if I turn off Bind 8 and edit resolv.conf and 
> enter the nameserver IP of the new box (primary DNS server),
> it seems to slow down and serve the websites slowly.
> So if I turn Bind 8 back on and put its own IP address in 
> /etc/resolv.conf, everything speeds up again.
> The boxes are colo-ed together, and are one IP away from
> each other so the lookups should not be a problem.

Did you remember to update the PTR records for all the IPs in use on
the new DNS server? Sounds like you've got the classic
incorrect/invalid reverse-ip-lookup problem.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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