BIND 9 AAAA record problems

[Kevin Darcy]

wbwither at bobball.uchicago.edu wrote:

>Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
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>>My BIND 9 nameserver has no problem giving a NODATA response to a AAAA
>>query, even without any special configuration.
>>
>>I think you have some sort of firewall issue. I can traceroute your
>>nameservers, but I'm getting "port unreachable" when trying to query
>>them....
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>
>Ahh, thank you, that's fixed now.  Now, I'm still getting slow responses
>here at my end, even though if I query the NS directly with "dig
>@65.182.78.133 efori.com IN AAAA" then I get a quick response.  Do you
>think this is due to my ISP's caching the result?
>
Caching should make the response quicker, not slower, but you might want 
to talk to your ISP to see if they are doing anything funky.

                                                                         
                           - Kevin