Host command timing out sporadically

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Wed, 2 May 2012, Paul Marais wrote:

> I'm having an issue where my postfix server is having trouble with some lookups.
> When I type 'host <hostname>', 80% of the time I get decent reply speed, but for 20% I get a 5 second delay, or even a timeout.
> 
> My nameserver is configured to only allow recursion for hosts on my local network, and I have my ISP dns in my forwarders.
> My resolv.conf has 127.0.0.1, my internal ip, and the ip for my isp DNS
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.

You may want to give us some specific examples.