On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Amadeus Stevenson wrote:

> > I was about to mention that there is supposed to be a bug in recent bind
> > (what version I forgot) where ipv6 queries eat up time on systems where
> > ipv6 is not available. Check the bind list for details.
> 
> I recompiled bind9 without ipv6 support and now it works much much
> better. (USE_IPV6=NO with netbsd pkgsrc)
> 
> Thanks very much!
> 
> Amadeus
> 
> On a side note, I couldn't find a '-4' option to run named with.

Hmm, you can give the -4 option in the /etc/rc.conf.
I wonder, would running bind 9 on a machine without ipv6 and just the -4 
option be running slower than when you compiled bind without ipv6 support 
in it? 
Bye,

Mipam.