Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 07:38:34 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Andy Firman <andy@firman.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bind 8 to 9 upgrade question Message-ID: <20041101183834.GB29223@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20041101152554.GA17470@akroteq.com> References: <20041101152554.GA17470@akroteq.com>
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On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 06:25:54AM -0900, Andy Firman wrote:
[...]
> The new IP address has been registered with the registar
> and all is well on the new box.
>
> The old box still has a bunch of sites on it that I am in
> the process of moving to the new box over the next few months.
> The zone files are all correct in pointing the domains
> to the correct box (IP address).
>
> On the old box, if I turn off Bind 8 and edit resolv.conf and
> enter the nameserver IP of the new box (primary DNS server),
> it seems to slow down and serve the websites slowly.
> So if I turn Bind 8 back on and put its own IP address in
> /etc/resolv.conf, everything speeds up again.
> The boxes are colo-ed together, and are one IP away from
> each other so the lookups should not be a problem.
Did you remember to update the PTR records for all the IPs in use on
the new DNS server? Sounds like you've got the classic
incorrect/invalid reverse-ip-lookup problem.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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