2-4 second delay from superuser to root servers

[Mark Andrews]

> Hello,
>  
> I recompiled bind with the "--disable-ipv6" option and the 2-4 second delay d
> isappeared.  My new response time is extreme fast for non-cached queries to r
> oot servers.  Thanks Mark and everyone for their help.
> 
> Sajed Naseem
> St. John's University

	Just for the record.  The reason why this is happening is
	that Solaris's sendmsg() fails to return a error when there
	is no route.  Named has to timeout rather than trying the
	next server immediately.

	Sun is aware of the issue and is working on it.

	Mark
  
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Mark Andrews [mailto:Mark_Andrews at isc.org] 
> Sent: Fri 10/14/2005 8:11 PM 
> To: Sajed Naseem 
> Cc: bind-users at isc.org 
> Subject: Re: 2-4 second delay from superuser to root servers 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 	        Get yourself IPv6 connectivity or run "named -4".
> 	
> 	        Mark
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PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews at isc.org