Yeah, it's hard to disagree on the "should" part but we all definitely have to 
administer networks in an imperfect world... To my mind, when there's zero ipv6 
connectivity beyond the LAN, it would be handy to not ask the firewall to 
create 3x more TCP connections that it can never complete, and/or have it send 
unreachables for all of them, especially on a larger network, so I would 
suggest that even if it is "wrong," filter-aaaa-on-v4 is probably still 
"helpful" in some situations, particularly where v6 is not available. The 
network that I originally posted about is small, but I administer a number of 
larger ones and this has been very eye-opening, so I do thank you all for your 
contributions to the conversation. 

It looks like I'd have to compile the filter plugin separately on Windows since 
it's not already integrated, and I don't see a dll or exe for it in the bin 
folder... That's all right though; I'm just glad to have the query times be so 
much quicker now! 

In case it's useful for anyone to know, I did just now try running named with 
the -4 option, taking out the server ::/0 { bogus yes; }; and it still has the 
same delay problem, so it appears that even with -4 it's still trying to do 
something on v6 that it shouldn't be doing. So, server ::/0 { bogus yes; }; is 
still the fix... at least on Windows, anyway. Many thanks again to all of you 
for the insightful responses. 

-Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users <bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org> On Behalf Of Mark Andrews
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2020 1:45 AM
To: Lee 
Cc: Ondrej Sury 
Subject: Re: Slow recursive query performance on Windows x64

Devices should return ICMP unreachables when networks are not reachable.  This 
allows applications to move onto the next address.  Not returning unreachables 
results in timeouts being the mechanism to move to the next address.

Additionally applications can make parallel connection attempts.  This works 
particularly well for TCP and is what Happy Eyeballs does with a slight delay 
(sub second) between each different address. Once a TCP connection succeeds the 
other connection attempts are aborted.  Too many developers have coped out on 
providing fast multi-homing support.  It usually only takes small while to 
convert a application from serial connection attempts to parallel connection 
attempts to the addresses returned from getaddrinfo().  What s more work is 
adding MIF (multiple interface) support which allows you to try different 
source addresses as well.

Mark

> On 20 Jan 2020, at 17:16, Lee <ler...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 1/20/20, Ondrej Sur  <ond...@isc.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Please note that filter-aaaa-on-v4 was always wrong.
> 
> how so?
> 
>> You should fix your network instead. It s a bandaid, not a fix.
> 
> My ISP doesn't offer ipv6, so I'm not sure how to fix my network..
> unless you mean disable ipv6 on everything?  (which I'm not sure is 
> even possible)
> 
> Lee
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