Intermittent timeout problem

[Kevin Darcy]

Yes, unless you have "forward only" defined, named will fall back to 
iterative resolution if the forwarders don't respond.

                                                                         
                                          - Kevin

Oli Comber wrote:

>I'm at a bit of a loss as to what the problem was, but it seems to have
>gone away now.
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>I've rolled my own firewall, but that didn't help.
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>What I have done though is comment out the 'forwarders' section, which
>means, I assume, that my server is now going direct to the top level and
>other servers to resolve.
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>I really don't understand why this should work better/faster: When my
>client resolves using my ISPs DNS, everything is fine.  When my DNS uses
>my ISP as a forwarder, its very, very slow.  Could this slowness be
>because it is actually failing completely and falling back to a direct
>lookup?
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>I may have been mistaken in my original email - whilst it does get
>slower over time, it starts off very slow in the first place.
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>If anyone can educate me, it'd be very much appreciated! :0)
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>Thanks,
>-Oli
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>On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 06:00, Ladislav Vobr wrote:
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>>Do you have firewall between? Did you check the bind logfiles? Have you 
>>try to snoop? What happen after these 10 min, can you still answer 
>>authoritative zones? Are you facing the problem from the internal dns 
>>severs itself, or from your clients only?...
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>>I don't see problem in the config file.
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>>Ladislav
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