updating Bind made it slower

[Phil Mayers]

On 26/09/11 08:48, Tom Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just updated a couple of my DNS-servers from the rather old version
> 9.4.1 to a newer version 9.8.0-P4.
>
> After this I have problem with outages. Looking into it, I found that
> the time for a "rndc reload" has nearly doubled!

This has been pointed out to me before; do you really need "reload", or 
would "reconfig" suffice?

It's entirely possible bind 9.8.0 does more checking of zone contents on 
load than previous versions; and by telling it to reload existing zones...