My somewhat aging Red Hat Linux 9 system doesn't do this:[...]
But bitlabels never enter the picture.
I installed this system somewhere in the second half of 2003. I can't imagine they changed it to look up bitlabels after this...
In fact, they did -- this change was part of (misguided) glibc bugfix errata :-(
* Thu Oct 30 2003 Jakub Jelinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2.3.2-27.9.2 - fix getnameinfo and getaddrinfo with reverse IPv6 lookups (#101261)
And why would there be a delay? BIND 9.3.0 doesn't support bitlabels so I assume it returns an error so there shouldn't be any delays.
The problem is that glibc resolver (I don't know of others) does not react immediately when it gets a Format Error message -- but rather waits for 10 seconds or so.
Yep, this has been reported to glibc folks as well ...
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