name server on esx server and ms dns slow recursion

[chris]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Michael P. Varre <mvarre at kishmish.com> wrote:
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> [Michael P. Varre]
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> I've been running bind9 on fbsd 6.2 on ESX3 for a couple years now with no
> performance issues.  For the last couple weeks I've been running on ESX3.5,
> bind (now BIND 9.4.2-P1) on ubuntu 8.04 LTS doing full recursion for my
> internal servers, mail servers, DNSBL and mail filters with no
> problems....quite the contrary actually.  I don't have hard numbers but it
> seems to fly in its current state.
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> My Ubuntu setup is as vanilla as possible.  Hope this helps at least take
> the finger away from vmware, esx, or Ubuntu a bit.



Michael,

thank you for the comment.  I was highly doubtful that this was an
Ubuntu or ESX issue.  I'm suspecting something more of a MS forward to
Bind9 thing.  But not sure why it's working with the SLES machines on
9.3.4 (I believe).

Are you running an AD setup with the local MS DNS servers forwarding
on to the Ubuntu DNS server for queries out to the internet?

My setup is very generic.  Installed 8.04 LTS, apt-get full-upgrade to
get the new bind9 patch and other goodies.. .then released it to the
wild with the named.conf from the old server.  Worked like a charm.

thanks again.

Chris