Troubleshooting poor performing BIND

Ray Van Dolson rvandolson at esri.com
Sat Apr 19 03:54:17 UTC 2008


On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 06:02:11PM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> Hi all, I am trying to track down a performance issue on a BIND 9
> server powered by Solaris 8 and a Sun Fire 280R with 2GB's memory.
> This server handles about 15 queries per second more or less.

Well, after doing a lot more searching and testing, it appears this has
to do with IPv6 being enabled by default in BIND.  If I start named
with -4 performance is great.

So I'm sure a newer version of BIND would fix my problems, but until
then -4 to the rescue.

Sorry for the noise.

Ray


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