Mathieu, As the original issue was reported for BIND 9.11, I prepared a patch (attached) which applies cleanly on top of BIND 9.11.2, which is the latest maintenance release in the 9.11 branch. Could you please test it and tell me whether the modified BIND behavior it causes is acceptable to you? If it is, please do not pass the patch on just yet; once it gets merged, I will refer you to the relevant git commit. Just applying the patch and recompiling BIND should be all that is needed for FreeBSD to be handled in a bit more friendly manner. As I mentioned before, the new configure option (--disable-tcp-fastopen) is only there for other systems that we currently do not know of which might exhibit a similar behavior. Thanks!