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Date:      Sun, 12 May 2002 10:53:57 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de>
To:        Peter Haight <peterh@sapros.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gethostbyname2 and AF_INET6
Message-ID:  <20020512085356.GI30437@cicely5.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <200205112253.g4BMrVUn041734@wartch.sapros.com>
References:  <200205112253.g4BMrVUn041734@wartch.sapros.com>

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On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 03:53:31PM -0700, Peter Haight wrote:
> 
> Recently mozilla has been really slow resolving some DNS queries. I tracked
> this down to a call to gethostbyname2. For some addresses (e.g.
> 'www.vanguard.com'), gethostbyname2 with AF_INET6 will fail and takes more
> than a minute.  I verified this with my own short program that does nothing
> but call gethostbyname2.
> 
> I've attached a tcpdump of two DNS lookups. One is against
> 'www.vanguard.com' which takes about a minute and thirty seconds to come
> back with an 'Host name lookup failure'.
> 
> The second log is against 'www.google.com' and it returns almost immediately
> with 'No address associated with name'.
> 
> Can someone explain to me what's going on?

www.vanguard.com has a broken DNS implementation.
Find out the zone administrator via SOA record or whois and complain.
RFC requires the behavour you saw with google.

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B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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