servfail response message question

Ryan ryan_chervenka at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 26 06:07:56 UTC 2013


I took out the ipv6 info in the zone DB file for this to work. I added it back into the file and it worked and then three queries later it gave the servfail response. 

It doesn't like the AAAA record. 

Thank you,
Ryan

On Jun 25, 2013, at 8:42 PM, Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org> wrote:

> 
> In message <1372206137.34187.YahooMailNeo at web161406.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>, RYAN C
> HERVENKA writes:
>> 
>> I currently have a domain example.com authoritative on my Ubuntu server
>> and it is delegating gslb.example.com to my load balancer.
>> 
>> www.example.com is a CNAME for www.gslb.example.com
>> Gslb.example.com has an NS record pointing to the LB
>> 
>> Client sends query for www.example.com to Ubuntu DNS server. The Ubuntu
>> DNS server sends a query to the load balancer for www.gslb.example.com
>> and the LB responds to the Ubuntu DNS server with the right A record in
>> the answer section. However, the Ubuntu server responds to the client
>> with servfail.
>> 
>> When I look at the pcap from the Ubuntu server, the LB is responding to
>> it with the correct IP but the dig response from the Ubuntu server to the
>> client shows "no servers could be reached" when I dig against the Ubuntu.
>> I also see the same message in the dns response in the pcap (obviously).
>> 
>> Ryans-MacBook-Pro:~ ryanc$ dig @10.10.1.50 www.example.com <-me querying
>> the Ubuntu for www.example.com
>> 
>> ; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> @10.10.1.50 www.example.com
>> ; (1 server found)
>> ;; global options: +cmd
>> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
>> 
>> 
>> Do you have any ideas as to why this is happening?
>> 
>> Ryan Chervenka
> 
> Not without more details.
> 
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