From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 8 14:06:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D82416A41F for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 14:06:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E82B743D48 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 14:06:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E7045D14; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:06:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 20637-09; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:06:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-79-217.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.79.217]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C645CC3; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:06:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <43204551.6040305@mac.com> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:06:09 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050801 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerod Prothe References: <43204100.10906@usd217.org> In-Reply-To: <43204100.10906@usd217.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: speed up bind9? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:06:15 -0000 Jerod Prothe wrote: > The single dns I am running resolves...eventually. I have not set up a > secondary name server (caching) but I plan to. Our proxy server is querying > my one-and-only dns but often queries time out. Is there a way to optimize > the performance of the dns? Why, yes. Use the "forwarders" directive to point your nameserver to another DNS server (which should be larger and better connected). However, a lightly loaded DNS server ought to run just fine unless there is a problem somewhere. Are you having path MTU problems, or do you have a firewall somewhere which might be blocking TCP port 53 or something like that? -- -Chuck