help with FC3 and Bugzilla Bug 161181 DNS truncation

Skunk Worx skunkworx at verizon.net
Wed Aug 24 04:15:33 UTC 2005


Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 12:58 -0700, Skunk Worx wrote:
> 
>>Paul Howarth wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 16:54 -0700, Skunk Worx wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>My FC3 local caching DNS is placing the AUTHORITY section in the 
>>>>responses. I think this exceeds a certain size threshold and I get this :
>>>>
>>>># dig @10.0.0.2 www.wikipedia.org
>>>>;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.
>>>>
>>>>When I go directly to my ISP's dns, it is fine, I assume because there 
>>>>is no lengthy AUTHORITY section in their reply.
>>>
>>>
>>>What lengthy AUTHORITY section? I'm getting just this:
>>>
>>>;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 8, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3
>>>
>>
>>So far I always get back AUTHORITY: 13 from my local caching DNS with 
>>lines in the form of :
>>
>>.                       28240   IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
>>
>>If I make an empty root.hints file I get SERVFAIL. If I try trimming 
>>down the root.hints file, or removing it, I get all 13 entries back.
>>
>>Dig'ing directly to my ISPs DNS returns AUTHORITY: 0 (no list), so the 
>>size of the response is not big enough to trigger the glibc bug.
>>
>>I've been fooling with the root.hints, zone and conf files and reviewing 
>>the caching DNS howto's (via google) but so far it's all or nothing (13 
>>AUTHORITY: entries or SERVFAIL).
> 
> 
> What's strange about this is that the AUTHORITY section should be
> returning the 3 wikipedia.org nameservers, not the root servers.
> 
> What do you get for:
> $ dig www.wikipedia.org +trace
> $ rpm -q bind
>

Thanks again for your continuing help. I must have some configuration 
setting botched to be getting all those root server entries.

--
SW

$ dig www.wikipedia.org +trace

; <<>> DiG 9.2.5 <<>> www.wikipedia.org +trace
;; global options:  printcmd
.                       38309   IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       38309   IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       38309   IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       38309   IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       38309   IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       38309   IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       38309   IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       38309   IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       38309   IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       38309   IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       38309   IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       38309   IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       38309   IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
;; Received 260 bytes from 10.0.0.2#53(10.0.0.2) in 3 ms

org.                    172800  IN      NS      TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET.
org.                    172800  IN      NS      TLD2.ULTRADNS.NET.
org.                    172800  IN      NS      TLD3.ULTRADNS.org.
org.                    172800  IN      NS      TLD4.ULTRADNS.org.
org.                    172800  IN      NS      TLD5.ULTRADNS.INFO.
org.                    172800  IN      NS      TLD6.ULTRADNS.CO.UK.
;; Received 293 bytes from 128.8.10.90#53(D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 103 ms

wikipedia.org.          86400   IN      NS      ns2.wikimedia.org.
wikipedia.org.          86400   IN      NS      ns1.wikimedia.org.
wikipedia.org.          86400   IN      NS      ns0.wikimedia.org.
;; Received 147 bytes from 204.74.112.1#53(TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET) in 20 ms

www.wikipedia.org.      3600    IN      CNAME   rr.wikimedia.org.
rr.wikimedia.org.       600     IN      CNAME   rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org.
rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org. 3600    IN      A       207.142.131.248
rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org. 3600    IN      A       207.142.131.204
rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org. 3600    IN      A       207.142.131.210
rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org. 3600    IN      A       207.142.131.246
rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org. 3600    IN      A       207.142.131.235
rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org. 3600    IN      A       207.142.131.213
rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org. 3600    IN      A       207.142.131.245
rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org. 3600    IN      A       207.142.131.203
rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org. 3600    IN      A       207.142.131.206
rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org. 3600    IN      A       207.142.131.214
rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org. 3600    IN      A       207.142.131.247
rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org. 3600    IN      A       207.142.131.236
rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org. 3600    IN      A       207.142.131.202
rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org. 3600    IN      A       207.142.131.205
;; Received 309 bytes from 145.97.39.158#53(ns2.wikimedia.org) in 168 ms


$ rpm -q bind
bind-9.2.5-3








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