I have a Centos 4.0, bind-9.2.4-2 as a master and and FC2 bind-9.2.3-13 slave setup. Their seem to be a delay on the Centos 4 when asking for anything that is not in its cache. Doing some tcpdumps I see the AUTH response came back, but like a 3 second delay after that before server sends response to client. Both server have the same config other than one being a master and the other a slave. Their are no delays on the FC2. Googled on this with no joy. Any ideas? Ted