BIND 9.1.0 - trouble resolving certain hosts

[Ben Weaver]

Thanks for the information.  I think I'll stick with 8.2.3 for a while too after seeing the number of bug-fixes from 9.1.0 to 9.1.1rc1 :-)

-Ben

On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 12:29:09AM +0000, paul at anastrophe.com wrote:
> Ben Weaver <w at tranquility.net> wrote:
> > I ran named in debugging mode and noticed from the logs that it was
> > timing out when attempting to communicate with dd.carfax.com.  That
> > explained why my "dig @localhost www.carfaxonline.com in a" returned
> > a SERVFAIL status, so I installed BIND 9.1.0 on a few other FreeBSD
> > 4.2-RELEASE machines I have, and got the same result.
> 
> The problem is the zero seconds TTL on the record. I ran into the same
> problem with www.businesswire.com, which had zero TTL on all records,
> and is running 9.1.0. The resolution was found in contacting their
> hostmaster, and their agreeing to increase the TTL to sixty seconds.
> 
> However, I've had an assortment of other problems with 9.1.0, so have
> reverted to 8.2.3-REL until 9.[2-9].x is released.
> 
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