porttest.dns-oarc.net tests failing on patched versions?

Jeremy C. Reed Jeremy_Reed at isc.org
Fri Jul 11 00:09:31 UTC 2008


On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Carlos Vicente wrote:

> BIND 9.4.2-P1
> # dig +short porttest.dns-oarc.net TXT @localhost
> z.y.x.w.v.u.t.s.r.q.p.o.n.m.l.k.j.i.h.g.f.e.d.c.b.a.pt.dns-oarc.net.
> "x.x.x.x is POOR: 26 queries in 0.8 seconds from 1 ports with std dev 0.00"
> 
> 
> # named -v
> BIND 9.5.0-P1
> 
> # dig +short porttest.dns-oarc.net TXT @localhost
> z.y.x.w.v.u.t.s.r.q.p.o.n.m.l.k.j.i.h.g.f.e.d.c.b.a.pt.dns-oarc.net.
> "x.x.x.x is POOR: 26 queries in 0.9 seconds from 1 ports with std dev 0.00"
> 
> This is RHEL 5.2
> 
> Any hints?

query-source defines a specific port. Some vendors actually ship 
named.conf with that enabled that way. See your new named logging -- it 
should have a warning message about that.

If that isn't it, maybe some bad device beyond you is doing port 
translation.


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