Lot of traffic after installing bind 8.4.3 on sparc

Paige Stafford staffordp1 at ornl.gov
Wed Dec 3 23:48:33 UTC 2003


We at ORNL are experiencing the same problem.  And I don't understand this
log output with the XX+...

e.g.
Dec  3 08:37:55 ns1 named[12200]: [ID 295310 daemon.info] XX+160.91.170.43/196.209.148.12.in-addr.arpa/PTR/IN

any ideas?

I am thinking, too, that we will revert to previous version of BIND.



On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote:

 >
 > > Hello Group
 > >
 > > I encountered the flowing problem with the new version 8.4.3 of bind. Maybe
 > > someone have an idea what is going wrong?
 >
 > 	I don't see anything wrong.  All I see below is the server making
 > 	IPv6 queries.  These could be as a result of clients requests or
 > 	it could be the result of named looking for missing AAAA glue.
 >
 > 	8.4.3 will *delay* lookups for missing AAAA records for nameservers,
 > 	if it has a A record to try, until the query to the IPv4 address
 > 	for the nameserver timeout.
 >
 > 	I seriously doubt that you were using 8.4.2 despite your claim.
 > 	BIND 8.4.2 was not released publicly except in deperacted form
 > 	for reference purposes.
 >
 > 	So if you tell us what you were actually running we may be able
 > 	to tell you if the changes in behaviour are expected or not.
 >
 > 	You should also tell us why you think these queries are wrong.
 >
 > 	If you don't want named to use IPv6 for lookups then specify
 > 	'-4' on the command line.
 >
 > 	Mark
 >
 > > After installing the new version everything went fine. The server gave
 > > answer. But afterwards we discover heavy traffic on our network.
 > >
 > > 11:20:27.450179 IP our.name.server.53 > xxx.168.44.1.53:  41698 [1au] AAAA?
 > > sriil5d.ladit.xxxxxx.xx. (65) (DF)
 > > 11:20:27.451796 IP our.name.server.53 > xxx.168.44.1.53:  48192 AAAA?
 > > srvlaaffaibb1b.xxx.xxx.xxx.(54) (DF)
 > > 11:20:27.451822 IP our.name.server.53 > xxx.25.232.11.53:  16843 [1au]
 > > AAAA? esssbadsiff08.xxx.xx. (51) (DF)
 > > 11:20:27.454873 IP our.name.server.53 > rsyux06.xdxx.xx.53:  22550 AAAA?
 > > 02.xdxx.xx. (39) (DF)
 > > 11:20:27.456028 IP our.name.server.53 > xxx.18.55.1.53:  23405 [1au] AAAA?
 > > vlddaib3d.xxx.xxx.xxx.(65) (DF)
 > > 11:20:27.456053 IP our.name.server.53 > xxx.18.44.1.53:  62674 AAAA?
 > > ib3d.xxx.xxx.xxx.(54) (DF)
 > > 11:20:27.457332 IP our.name.server.53 > xxx.18.55.1.53:  3450 AAAA?
 > > srvxxx5.xxx.xxx.xxx.(54) (DF)
 > > (obfuscated)
 > >
 > > ... a lot of traffic! Afterwards we changed back to 8.4.2 and everything
 > > went normal.
 > >
 > > The system is a `SunOS dns1 5.8 Generic_108528-24 sun4m sparc
 > > SUNW,SPARCstation-5`.
 > >
 > > The changelog say something about ipv6 addr. and AAAA requests...
 > >
 > > Any suggestion would be welcome.
 > >
 > > Thx and by
 > >
 > > Dan Berger
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > --
 > Mark Andrews, Internet Software Consortium
 > 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
 > PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at isc.org
 >
 >


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