Re: [gentoo-server] Slow nameresolution with bind

[Christian Bricart]

Alexander Zimmerling wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I am sitting here with my new gentoo server. At the moment I struggle
> with bind. The problem is known, but I cannot solve it without help.

> [..]

have you tried to point upstream resolving to your provider's nameservers
rather than always asking the root-nameservers..?

try adding:

  ..
  forwarders {
    8.8.8.8;
    8.8.4.4;
  };
  ..

to the "options { ..}"-block in your /etc/bind/named.conf - which will
then ask the Google-DNS cluster for unknown/uncached RR.
You may also specify your provider's DNS IPs there to have an even shorter
round-trip for lookups.

> P.S.: I've found a similar "bug" in bugzilla
> (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269202) but w/o resolution.

i doubt that your problem is IPv6 related.

Christian