Unexpected behaviour from the B root servers? Am I setup wrong?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 2/25/07, Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote:
>
> > I am only seeing this with the B systems at the moment.. and I am
> > trying to figure out how I should 'fix' my firewall or backbone DNS
> > server to deal with it.
> >
> > Our campus DNS servers will 'proxy' a request to the backbone DNS
> > servers and when it talks to the B servers, we get requests back from
> > different IP address from what we sent to (thus our firewall drops it
> > as a bad session).
> >
> > 129.24.8.1.32768 > 192.228.79.201.domain
> > 192.228.79.200.domain > 129.24.8.1.32768
> > 192.228.79.202.domain > 129.24.8.1.32768
> > 192.228.79.201.domain > 129.24.8.1.32768
> >
> > This really picked up on Saturday when pretty much every send to the
> > 192.228.79.201 server got 1 to 2 other returns from b1.ip4.int,
> > b2.ip4.int etc.
> >
> > The only other servers that the firewall seems to be dropping are some
> > 'questionable' ones in Romania that showed up over the weekend.
>
>         The first thing you need to do is figure out where the
>         "duplication" is occuring.
>
>         As a datapoint, I don't see it from here when talking to
>         "b2".
>

Thanks Mark

I ran a tcpdump overnight to see when it was occuring and it seems to
occur every 10-30 queries. So my guess is that Peter Bambier's comment
about a load-balancer on the B side may be the issue. Looking at the
full packet capture the packets I am getting from 200,202,203 are all
the same as the ones I get from 201.

Hope you are having a good summer.
Stephen


> 15:45:37.180796 220.239.253.18.60656 > 192.228.79.201.53:  36120 TXT CHAOS? hostname.bind. (31)
> 15:45:37.337522 192.228.79.201.53 > 220.239.253.18.60656:  36120*- 1/1/0 CHAOS TXT b2 (60) (DF)
>


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