Forwarders under 8.2.2-P5 slightly broken?

[Bruno Hall]

I believe that you're exactly right.

I switched debugging on with and without using forwarding, and
there is a large delay when using forwarding (on the order of 60
seconds).

It seems as if directing one's resolver at the second machine,
and enabling forwarding on the first are not quite the same.

So the moral of the story is that forwarding should probably be
avoided.

Thanks to you and Jim for the great help!

Bruno

> This looks like a timing issue with the forwarder. On the first query, it's
> getting the NS records, but not the A record. When the query is repeated, it
> now has less work to do to resolve the query (in fact the response to the
> A record query may have been received in the interim), so it returns an answer
> before the client times out. Either your Internet connection is very
> slow/congested, or there's something wrong with the configuration of the
> forwarder or some device in between it and the Internet. I'd check the
> forwarders hints file, and if that looks OK, turn on debugging to see what's
> actually happening in that nameserver when it tries to resolve these names.
> 
> 
> - Kevin