Problem after upgrading to BIND 9

[patrick]

Thanks for the tips -- it turned out it was because of the entry in
/etc/hosts, or more so that the ::1 appeared first for localhost (an
odd FreeBSD default). Removing that fixed everything. Not sure why
this suddenly happened after we upgraded from BIND 8 to 9, but I'm
glad it's fixed. :)

Patrick

On 8/28/06, Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote:
>
> > patrick wrote:
> > > I upgraded BIND on one of our DNS servers (running FreeBSD 4.x) to
> > > version 9, and now all of our other machines that use this server for
> > > DNS resolution is experiencing a problem where "localhost" seems to be
> > > resolving to "::1". For example, if I previously typed:
> > >
> > > telnet localhost 25
> > >
> > > I would get:
> > >
> > > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > > Connected to localhost.
> > > Escape character is '^]'.
> > > ...
> > >
> > > But now, I get:
> > >
> > > Trying ::1...
> > >
> > > Which takes forever to timeout.
> > >
> > > In my /etc/hosts file, I have
> > >
> > > ::1                     localhost
> > > 127.0.0.1               localhost
> > >
> > >
> > > We don't use IPV6 at all, and I do have the localhost.rev and
> > > localhost-v6.rev added into the new BIND 9 server. Does anyone have an
> > > idea of how I can get this to work the way it used to?
> >
> > If you don't use IPV6 at all, why do you even bother with a
> > localhost-v6.rev? Try commenting out that definition and see if your
> > problem goes away.
>
>         Removing localhost-v6.rev won't have any effect.
>
>         What does "netstat -rnf inet6" return.
>
> >             - Kevin
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