[Unbound-users] Once TTL has gone, don't fetch again

W.C.A. Wijngaards wouter at NLnetLabs.nl
Mon Sep 7 08:57:43 UTC 2009


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Hi Koh-ichi,

Yes I could reproduce this.

The trouble is this:
the TTL for ns1.visualjapan.co.jp and ns2.visualjapan.co.jp
is 3600 when visualjapan.co.jp servers are queried, not
86400 like the other IP addresses have - like the lame
server has.

So after one hour, the working server addresses have timed
out and only the lame server address is still in cache.

Unbound tries to fetch the missing timed out addresses, but
needs to ask ... the lame server for it.  So, it cannot fetch
it.  It looks like the domain is a lame domain.

Unbound cannot ask co.jp again because this looks like a
lame domain as in BCP123 about resolver misimplementations.

Fixes:
Change the TTL for ns1.visualjapan and ns2.visualjapan
to 86400 when you query them for themselves.  Likely there
is still a second or two of trouble but not 23 hours of trouble.

remove the lame server from the NS record of visualjapan.co.jp.

fix the lame server.

Something which also caught my eye, (but is not the problem here)
is that the ns1.visualjapan servers give two IP addresses when
given in the delegation from co.jp, but only one IP address when
queried directly.

Best regards,
   Wouter

On 09/07/2009 07:46 AM, Koh-ichi Ito wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> One of colleague in Japan Unbound Users Group reports the
> following problem, and I could reproduce.
> 
> Environ:
> - his
>  - unbound-1.3.3 + ldns-1.6.1 + libevent-1.4.2-stable
> - mine
>  - vanilla built unbound-1.3.3
> 
> Problem:
> At first trial, unbound could resolve
> "www.rurubu.com". After 1 hour(is its TTL), query to unbound
> on "www.rurubu.com" ends with SERVFAIL.
> 
> 
> Some condition observed:
> 
> 	# authoritative answer on "www.rurubu.com" doesn't
> 	# contain ADDITIONAL SECTION.
> 
> 	# I know that RFC 1035 says additional section is
> 	# "a posibilly empty list", so this is notable, but
> 	# no problem.
> 
> kohi at guest1[19]% dig @ns1.visualjapan.co.jp www.rurubu.com
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0-P2 <<>> @ns1.visualjapan.co.jp www.rurubu.com
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 45680
> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;www.rurubu.com.                        IN      A
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> www.rurubu.com.         3600    IN      A       202.143.76.167
> 
> ;; Query time: 13 msec
> ;; SERVER: 210.225.98.1#53(210.225.98.1)
> ;; WHEN: Mon Sep  7 23:35:46 2009
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 48
> 
> 	# Authority on visualjapan.co.jp is deletgated to
> 	# those 3 servers.
> 
> kohi at guest1[22]% dig +norec @a.dns.jp visualjapan.co.jp NS
> 	   :
> 	(snip)
> 	   :
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> visualjapan.co.jp.      86400   IN      NS      ns2.visualjapan.co.jp.
> visualjapan.co.jp.      86400   IN      NS      ns1.visualjapan.co.jp.
> visualjapan.co.jp.      86400   IN      NS      ns-tk022.ocn.ad.jp.
> 
> 	# but one(ns-tk002.ocn.ad.jp) is lame delegated.
> 
> kohi at guest1[23]% dig +norec @ns-tk022.ocn.ad.jp ns1.visualjapan.co.jp
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0-P2 <<>> +norec @ns-tk022.ocn.ad.jp ns1.visualjapan.co.jp
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 28896
> ;; flags: qr ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;ns1.visualjapan.co.jp.         IN      A
> 
> ;; Query time: 13 msec
> ;; SERVER: 203.139.160.104#53(203.139.160.104)
> ;; WHEN: Mon Sep  7 23:41:15 2009
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 39
> 
> 
> 
> Though I can provide log with verbosity: 5 and the result of
> unbound-control dump_cache, but these have quite large
> amount to post this list, so I can send them off-list if you
> need, or let me known appropriate keyword to grep, or
> appropriate verbosity setting.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 					Koh-ichi Ito
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