DNS lookup problems specific the Facebook domains
JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
Jinmei_Tatuya at isc.org
Tue Dec 2 20:31:48 UTC 2008
At Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:47:42 -0800,
Rob Tanner <rtanner at linfield.edu> wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out if this is my problem or a Facebook problem.
> The first issue was with facebookmail.com. The cache entry would become
> corrupt and I would have to clear cache to get things back to working
> again. Since facebookmail.com resolves to a single IP address, my work
> around was to make my internal DNS authoritative for it and the problem
> went away.
>
> A week ago, DNS lookups for facebook.com failed completely. Even
> restarting the DNS service didn't fix the problem. Currently, and as a
> temporary fix only, I am forwarding facebook,com lookups to an
> off-campus server which does not seem to have the problem. And now, as
> of last night, lookups to fbcdn.net (which apparently hosts stylesheets)
> fail completely and I've implemented the same forwarding scheme there as
> well. I've been tracking resource allocations on the Linux box that
> hosts the DNS just to see if there might be some connection there, and
> as far as I can tell, there isn't anything there that might explain it.
>
> Being that we are a four year residential college, the heaviest hit on
> our DNS servers are students, and Facebook is the singularly most
> heavily used external service. Also, as far as I can tell, we are
> having no problems looking up any other addresses. Has anyone else seen
> this problem with Facebook or does this problem sound familiar with any
> other sites. I'm baffled and any ideas about what to look for would be
> most appreciatd.
Does this still happen? If so, and if you're using BIND 9.5.x prior
to 9.5.1b3, I'd suggest you upgrade to 9.5.1b3. Prior versions of 9.5
have a bug in cache management that could cause failure of name
resolution for particular domain names.
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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
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