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From: paul@hal.COM (Paul Sander)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: How come named works so slow ?
Date: 28 Feb 1994 14:00:22 -0800
Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc.
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Message-ID: <2ktphm$78g@parlo.hal.COM>
References: <CLxMvB.Ann@latcs1.lat.oz.au>
NNTP-Posting-Host: parlo.hal.com

In article <CLxMvB.Ann@latcs1.lat.oz.au>,
M.C. Wong <wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au> wrote:
>Hi,
>  I am running FreeBSD-1.0.2, I want to use named instead of /etc/hosts for
>names lookup. In /etc/netstart I have uncomment the line name_server=YES,
>and in /etc/named.boot linked to /etc/named/named.boot, but when I boot up,
>it hangs during loading of mountd, sendmail, tsapd (ISODE) for 2 to 3 minutes,
>the same happen when I do telnet, rlogin, ftp, ping, arp, netstat etc.
>I wonder have I done anything wrong ? I am conneted to my dept. LAN using
>SLIP, and I got /etc/resolv.conf file. What basically I want to do is to
>assign my own machine (slip33.lat.oz.au) as the DNS master  for myself, and
>I will also want to make use of other DNS server in my dept. LAN over slip.

[ contents of DNS configuration files omitted ]

I assume that this site is not connected to the Internet.  I had a similar
problem and tracked it down to not having configured DNS to correctly serve
the root domain.  Perhaps someone out there can explain how to correctly
configure DNS to serve the root domain for isLANds.  I'd sure like to know
how but all of my attempts to do so caused named to loop indefinitely when
looking up anything not in my local domain.

I finally solved the problem by getting an Internet feed and deferring to
one of the well-known root servers, but that may not be an option for you.
-- 
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