Same source port queries dropped by ServerIron load balancer
Mark Andrews
marka at isc.org
Thu Apr 1 04:37:13 UTC 2010
In message <4BB1C63B.30402 at ies.etisalat.ae>, Abdulla Bushlaibi writes:
> We are facing query drops by using dnsperf tool from ISC testing the DNS
> service via load balancer. Multiple queries from the same source port
> are being dropped partially by the load balancer and as per the load
> balancer vendor feed back, this is a security feature and this situation
> doesn't happen in real life scenarios.
>
> Most of the cases, clients are generating unique random source ports for
> each DNS query, however we are not sure about the option of reusing the
> same source port for multiple queries and how does it apply in real life
> scenarios.
>
> Appreciate your comment on this subject.
>
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> Abdulla Ahmad Bushlaibi
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A load balancer that cannot cope with multiple outstanding queries
that have the same source port is broken. A server (and that
includes any load balancer in front of it) should not care about
the source port.
Mark
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