Poor Performance bind 9.3

JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 jinmei at isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp
Wed Jun 15 04:35:14 UTC 2005


>>>>> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:54:46 -0400, 
>>>>> Vinny Abello <vinny at tellurian.com> said:

> Offhand, I would try starting it with the -4 switch to limit it to 
> IPv4 traffic. Sometimes if your OS is IPv6 enabled, BIND will try to 
> use the v6 connectivity (that you may not have) first. I've noted on 
> my FreeBSD test server that using the -4 switch sped up a lot of 
> lookup operations for me.

This should be fixed at least in 9.3.1 and 9.2.5 with this change:

1773.	[bug]		Fast retry on host / net unreachable. [RT #13153]

					JINMEI, Tatuya
					Communication Platform Lab.
					Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
					jinmei at isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp



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