Re: difference in dnscache installs

richard lucassen wrote:

> Ik increased MAXUDP to 300, but no results. And just to exclude that
> there are some external causes involved, I set up an extra instance of
> dnscache on 127.53.3.1 and did the same query:

Something left field; try a TCP query on the "broken" server (for a
recent-ish version of "host", I think it's "-T").  If the number of
TCP queries are low, it should give it enough time to complete the
query, and then at least we know what area to look in.

> Do you guys have another hint what can be done?

I'm sure CNAME/Akamai type issues have been discussed on the list before,
let's see, dredge dredge dredge ... aha.  This thread -

<http://marc.info/?t=109422162200001&r=1&w=2>

And this "patch" -

<http://marc.info/?l=djbdns&m=109509877832495&w=2>

May help.  Or may not.


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