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
> >
> >
> >
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>
>
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