Frequent timeout

Alex mysqlstudent at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 19:53:47 UTC 2018


On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 3:05 PM John W. Blue <john.blue at rrcic.com> wrote:
>
> Alex,
>
> Have you uploaded this pcap with the SERVFAIL's?  I didn't have time to look at your first upload but can review this one.

Thanks very much. I've uploaded the pcap file here. It's about ~100MB
compressed, and represents about 4hrs of data, I believe.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KUpDoQ2zuz5ITeKuO0BhlK7JvWSUAG3B/view?usp=sharing

Thanks,
Alex



>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users [mailto:bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Alex
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2018 1:49 PM
> To: carl at byington.org; bind-users at lists.isc.org
> Subject: Re: Frequent timeout
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 12:45 PM Carl Byington <carl at byington.org> wrote:
> >
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA512
> >
> > On Sun, 2018-09-02 at 21:54 -0400, Alex wrote:
> > > Do you have any other ideas on how I can isolate this problem?
> >
> > Run tcpdump on the external ethernet connection.
> >
> > tcpdump -s0 -vv -i %s -nn -w /tmp/outputfile udp dst port domain
>
> I've captured some packets that I believe include the packets relating to the SERVFAIL errors I've been receiving. Now I have to figure out how to go through them.
>
> In the meantime, I've configured /etc/resolv.conf to send queries to a remote system of ours, and the errors have (mostly) stopped.
>
> I also notice some traces take an abnormal amount of time. Ping times to google.com are less than 20ms, but this trace shows reaching the root servers takes 104ms:
>
> # dig +trace +nodnssec google.com
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.11.4-P1-RedHat-9.11.4-5.P1.fc28 <<>> +trace +nodnssec google.com ;; global options: +cmd
> .                       3451    IN      NS      g.root-servers.net.
> .                       3451    IN      NS      k.root-servers.net.
> .                       3451    IN      NS      j.root-servers.net.
> .                       3451    IN      NS      c.root-servers.net.
> .                       3451    IN      NS      i.root-servers.net.
> .                       3451    IN      NS      e.root-servers.net.
> .                       3451    IN      NS      m.root-servers.net.
> .                       3451    IN      NS      l.root-servers.net.
> .                       3451    IN      NS      a.root-servers.net.
> .                       3451    IN      NS      h.root-servers.net.
> .                       3451    IN      NS      b.root-servers.net.
> .                       3451    IN      NS      d.root-servers.net.
> .                       3451    IN      NS      f.root-servers.net.
> ;; Received 839 bytes from 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) in 0 ms
>
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      h.gtld-servers.net.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      g.gtld-servers.net.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      b.gtld-servers.net.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      j.gtld-servers.net.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      f.gtld-servers.net.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      m.gtld-servers.net.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      c.gtld-servers.net.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      d.gtld-servers.net.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      k.gtld-servers.net.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      i.gtld-servers.net.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      l.gtld-servers.net.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      a.gtld-servers.net.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      e.gtld-servers.net.
> ;; Received 835 bytes from 202.12.27.33#53(m.root-servers.net) in 104 ms
>
> google.com.             172800  IN      NS      ns2.google.com.
> google.com.             172800  IN      NS      ns1.google.com.
> google.com.             172800  IN      NS      ns3.google.com.
> google.com.             172800  IN      NS      ns4.google.com.
> ;; Received 287 bytes from 192.33.14.30#53(b.gtld-servers.net) in 44 ms
>
> ;; expected opt record in response
> google.com.             300     IN      A       172.217.10.14
> ;; Received 44 bytes from 216.239.36.10#53(ns3.google.com) in 29 ms
>
> Running the same trace again showed 129ms.
>
> I also located this warning:
> 06-Sep-2018 12:03:33.304 client: warning: client @0x7f502c1d3d50
> 127.0.0.1#60968 (cmail20.com.multi.surbl.org): recursive-clients soft limit exceeded (901/900/1000), aborting oldest query
>
> I've increased recursive-clients to 2500 but the SERVFAIL errors continue.
>
> There are also a ton of lame-server entries, many of which are related to one RBL or another, as part of my postscreen config:
> 06-Sep-2018 13:16:50.686 lame-servers: info: connection refused resolving '48.167.85.209.zz.countries.nerd.dk/A/IN': 195.182.36.121#53
> 06-Sep-2018 13:16:50.706 lame-servers: info: connection refused resolving '48.167.85.209.bb.barracudacentral.org/A/IN':
> 64.235.154.72#53
> 06-Sep-2018 13:16:51.308 lame-servers: info: connection refused resolving '48.167.85.209.bl.blocklist.de/A/IN': 185.21.103.31#53
> 06-Sep-2018 13:16:54.798 lame-servers: info: connection refused resolving 'e51dd24f684d212a7da1119b23603b0f.generic.ixhash.net/A/IN':
> 178.254.39.16#53
> 06-Sep-2018 13:16:54.799 lame-servers: info: connection refused resolving 'f4d997d8949e6dbd30f6a418ad364589.generic.ixhash.net/A/IN':
> 178.254.39.16#53
> 06-Sep-2018 13:16:55.762 lame-servers: info: connection refused resolving '2.164.177.209.bb.barracudacentral.org/A/IN':
> 64.235.145.15#53
> 06-Sep-2018 13:16:55.845 lame-servers: info: connection refused resolving '2.164.177.209.bb.barracudacentral.org/A/IN':
> 64.235.154.72#53
>
> What would be a cause of such a significant delay in reaching the root servers?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
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