Bind Help - Lookup Timeouts

[Simon Hobson]

Darren Nay wrote:

>I have a question about DNS config.  I've installed a new DNS server at a
>company that I just started at.  I previously worked for a company that
>already had DNS using bind 8 & 9 and I became very familiar with those
>servers.  I figured that I could get this server working without a problem,
>but I am "unfortunately" having some odd problems. 
>
>I've setup the DNS server using bind 8 (I also tried bind 9 with the same
>problem).  However, when doing an nslookup using the DNS server then I get
>timeouts on some domains, yet others work just fine.

If you try again a few seconds later, do you get an answer ? I had a 
slightly similar problem a while ago, and it turned out to be a 
matter of our slow (64k ISDN) internet link being overloaded, and by 
the time a reply came back the client had timed out. Retrying the 
query a few seconds later would normally result in an answer as the 
server had finished querying and cached the result in the meantime.

Simon

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