Re: DNS MX timeouts

2009-06-26 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <4a452428.9020...@provident-solutions.com>, "Vernon A. Fort" writes: > I've run into a problem with named and timeouts primarily with MX > lookups. When a MX query fails the first time, i have to restart the > named process before it will return a successful query. Again, its > mai

Re: DNS MX timeouts

2009-06-26 Thread ic.nssip
I had the same problem yesterday with two servers running BIND 9.5.0-P2 on SPARC Solaris 8. I had to kill the process few times and finally it worked. After a time it failed again to resolve MX records for the same users. I updated the root zone (it had some old records) and it never failed aga

Re: DNS MX timeouts

2009-06-26 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 02:40:24PM -0500, Vernon A. Fort wrote a message of 31 lines which said: > All versions of bind i have tried (in gentoo portage) have the same > problem. Well, my personal dedicated server is a Gentoo using BIND as a resolver and I can say it works. So, no real ideas,