Why are only com/net/org slow?

[Bryan Irvine]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 4:22 PM, W Sanders <wsanders1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> This doesn't seem to have much to do with BIND, but it's one I have not
>  seen before. We operate some cache-only DNS servers for customers to
>  point their resolvers to. Most of these are running BIND 9.4.1+.
>
>  On all the hosts I've tested so far, when I do a
>
>  dig @ourserver somedomain.com
>  dig @ourserver somedomain.net
>  dig @ourserver somedomain.org
>
>  it takes 4+ sec to get the initial non-cached response, whether valid
>  or
>  NXDOMAIN, back from com/net/org. In fact org often *hangs*.
>

Try starting BIND with '-4'.  It worked for me when I was experiencing
the same thing.


--Bryan