[Unbound-users] Setting max-time before servfail

Gareth Hopkins gabbawp at gmail.com
Mon Jan 18 16:37:19 UTC 2010


Hi Wouter,

I am extremely happy with the way unbound works and thank-you very much for
the work that you
have done.

I'm just not looking forward to the customer queries about why "no dns
servers could be reached"
and other odd error messages. Trying to explain to Joe Public about how name
servers are
in fact broken and that is why they don't get the response they expect is
always challenging.
Their reply is usually "but if I use opendns or googledns it answers" (never
mind the fact that they
are still answering with a servfail.)

An example I am seeing on one of the unbound caches is as follows.

The nameservers for 233.165.in-addr.arpa are broken

<snip>

233.165.in-addr.arpa.   59408 IN    NS  dbndns1.ifusion.co.za.
233.165.in-addr.arpa.   59408 IN    NS  jhbdns1.ifusion.co.za.
;; BAD (HORIZONTAL) REFERRAL
;; Received 133 bytes from 165.233.48.99#53(jhbdns1.ifusion.co.za) in 21 ms

233.165.in-addr.arpa.   82036 IN    NS  jhbdns1.ifusion.co.za.
233.165.in-addr.arpa.   82036 IN    NS  dbndns1.ifusion.co.za.
;; BAD (HORIZONTAL) REFERRAL
;; Received 133 bytes from 165.233.152.114#53(dbndns1.ifusion.co.za) in 35
ms

233.165.in-addr.arpa.   59408 IN    NS  dbndns1.ifusion.co.za.
233.165.in-addr.arpa.   59408 IN    NS  jhbdns1.ifusion.co.za.
;; BAD (HORIZONTAL) REFERRAL
;; Received 133 bytes from 165.233.48.99#53(jhbdns1.ifusion.co.za) in 20 ms

233.165.in-addr.arpa.   82036 IN    NS  jhbdns1.ifusion.co.za.
233.165.in-addr.arpa.   82036 IN    NS  dbndns1.ifusion.co.za.
;; BAD (HORIZONTAL) REFERRAL
;; Received 133 bytes from 165.233.152.114#53(dbndns1.ifusion.co.za) in 33
ms

233.165.in-addr.arpa.   59408 IN    NS  dbndns1.ifusion.co.za.
233.165.in-addr.arpa.   59408 IN    NS  jhbdns1.ifusion.co.za.
;; BAD (HORIZONTAL) REFERRAL
;; Received 133 bytes from 165.233.48.99#53(jhbdns1.ifusion.co.za) in 21 ms

</snip>

A unbound-control dump_requestlist shows the following.

232  PTR IN 17.75.233.165.in-addr.arpa. 117.590562 iterator wait for
165.233.48.99
233  PTR IN 18.75.233.165.in-addr.arpa. 106.083322 iterator wait for
165.233.48.99
234  PTR IN 19.75.233.165.in-addr.arpa. 110.606661 iterator wait for
165.233.48.99
235  PTR IN 20.75.233.165.in-addr.arpa. 116.093442 iterator wait for
165.233.48.99
236  PTR IN 21.67.233.165.in-addr.arpa. 105.611471 iterator wait for
165.233.48.99
237  PTR IN 21.75.233.165.in-addr.arpa. 115.076346 iterator wait for
165.233.48.99
238  PTR IN 22.75.233.165.in-addr.arpa. 114.074878 iterator wait for
165.233.48.99
239  PTR IN 23.75.233.165.in-addr.arpa. 113.083954 iterator wait for
165.233.48.99
240  PTR IN 24.75.233.165.in-addr.arpa. 112.056811 iterator wait for
165.233.48.99
241  PTR IN 25.75.233.165.in-addr.arpa. 111.071265 iterator wait for
165.233.48.99
242  PTR IN 26.75.233.165.in-addr.arpa. 110.086471 iterator wait for
165.233.48.99
243  PTR IN 27.75.233.165.in-addr.arpa. 109.110294 iterator wait for
165.233.48.99
244  PTR IN 28.74.233.165.in-addr.arpa. 60.251117 iterator wait for
165.233.48.99
245  PTR IN 28.75.233.165.in-addr.arpa. 108.101261 iterator wait for
165.233.48.99
246  PTR IN 29.75.233.165.in-addr.arpa. 107.636158 iterator wait for
165.233.48.99

Would it be possible to get unbound to send a servfail if all nameservers
give a bad referral ? The above
seems to indicate it will continue trying until it gets the data it is
looking for, but in this case it never will and
the query times out. The same query against google dns gives a servfail.

unbound cache

# time dig 24.75.233.165.in-addr.arpa PTR @dnscache1-ctn.is.co.za

; <<>> DiG 9.6.1-P2 <<>> 24.75.233.165.in-addr.arpa PTR @
dnscache1-ctn.is.co.za
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

real    0m15.285s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.012s

google cache

# time dig 24.75.233.165.in-addr.arpa PTR @8.8.8.8

; <<>> DiG 9.6.1-P2 <<>> 24.75.233.165.in-addr.arpa PTR @8.8.8.8
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 33284
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;24.75.233.165.in-addr.arpa.  IN    PTR

;; Query time: 577 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Mon Jan 18 18:32:30 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 44


real    0m0.585s
user    0m0.008s
sys     0m0.001s

Thanks again

Cheers

Gareth

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 8:06 PM, W.C.A. Wijngaards <wouter at nlnetlabs.nl>wrote:

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> Hi Gareth,
>
> The lookup is really taking very long and unbound assumes that you
> should keep waiting for the answer.  Unbound does not know what the
> timeout of the client is, so cannot tell it servfail.
>
> Perhaps the clients should have longer timeouts?  Or how else can they
> insist on an answer within some time?  This is not part of the DNS
> protocol?  They are obviously broken.
>
> Now, to step back from ranting about broken other stuff, in reality, you
> want stuff to work.  Right now unbound does not do what you want.  What
> would work well?
>
> Best regards,
>   Wouter
>
> On 01/15/2010 03:07 PM, Gareth Hopkins wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am in the process of moving a number of caching boxes to unbound.
> >
> > One thing I have noticed is the time it takes for a servfail to get
> > generated should a domain not be available/visible.
> >
> > Example.
> >
> > With unbound I get a timeout (which some clients see as the dns server
> > failing and not answering)
> >
> > # dig bagmail.com <http://bagmail.com> mx @dnscache1-ctn.is.co.za
> > <http://dnscache1-ctn.is.co.za>
> >
> > ; <<>> DiG 9.6.1-P2 <<>> bagmail.com <http://bagmail.com> mx
> @unbound_server
> > ;; global options: +cmd
> > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> >
> > With our current product I get a servfail.
> >
> > # dig bagmail.com <http://bagmail.com> mx @current_cache
> >
> > ; <<>> DiG 9.6.1-P2 <<>> bagmail.com <http://bagmail.com> mx
> > @dnscache2-ctn.is.co.za <http://dnscache2-ctn.is.co.za>
> > ;; global options: +cmd
> > ;; Got answer:
> > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 35397
> > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
> >
> > ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> > ;bagmail.com <http://bagmail.com>.                   IN      MX
> >
> > ;; Query time: 5000 msec
> >
> > ;; WHEN: Fri Jan 15 16:00:17 2010
> > ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 29
> >
> > The issue with this specific domain is the NS servers, ns1 and
> > ns2.goldkey.com <http://ns2.goldkey.com> don't exist
> >
> > bagmail.com <http://bagmail.com>.            172800  IN      NS
> > ns1.goldkey.com <http://ns1.goldkey.com>.
> > bagmail.com <http://bagmail.com>.            172800  IN      NS
> > ns2.goldkey.com <http://ns2.goldkey.com>.
> >
> > unbound-control lookup on that domain shows the following
> >
> > # unbound-control lookup bagmail.com <http://bagmail.com>
> > The following name servers are used for lookup of bagmail.com
> > <http://bagmail.com>.
> > ;rrset 84946 2 0 2 0
> > bagmail.com <http://bagmail.com>.    171346  IN      NS
> > ns1.goldkey.com <http://ns1.goldkey.com>.
> > bagmail.com <http://bagmail.com>.    171346  IN      NS
> > ns2.goldkey.com <http://ns2.goldkey.com>.
> > ;rrset 84946 1 0 1 0
> > ns2.goldkey.com <http://ns2.goldkey.com>.        171346  IN      A
> > 206.83.79.29
> > ;rrset 84946 1 0 1 0
> > ns1.goldkey.com <http://ns1.goldkey.com>.        171346  IN      A
> > 64.95.64.222
> > Delegation with 2 names, of which 2 can be examined to query further
> > addresses.
> > It provides 2 IP addresses.
> > 64.95.64.222            rtt 120000 msec, 12 lost. noEDNS probed.
> > 206.83.79.29            rtt 120000 msec, 17 lost. noEDNS probed.
> >
> > Is there anyway to get unbound to return a servfail straight away ?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Gareth
> >
> >
> >
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