Amadeus Stevenson wrote:
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> It takes about a second or two to resolve external addresses, which is
> slowing things down a lot. Once cached it is much faster. Do you have
> any ideas what I am doing wrong? This happens from the gateway itself
> as well as from every natted box. I never used to have this problem
> before:

Consider invoking named with the -4 option to restrict BIND to doing IPv4 
queries only, rather than also trying to do IPv6 queries, and see whether that 
makes any difference.

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-Chuck