Why are only com/net/org slow?

[John Wobus]

>> it could be IPv6.
>>
>> Many nameservers do have both A and AAAA records.
>>
>> Once I got rid of the problem when I removed all IPv6 stuff from my
>> nameserver, to prevent bind from trying IPv6 first and finally 
>> forgetting
>> IPv4 if the queried server had both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
>
> 	Gross overkill.  "named -4" will achieve the same thing.
> 	I suspect the OP is running Solaris which doesn't report
> 	network unreachable when there is no route to the destination.
>
> 	Named has to timeout rather than try another address immediately.
>
> 	Sun is aware of the issue.
>
> 	Mark

I suspect the issue isn't very high on Sun's priority list.

John