[External] Re: intermittent resolution

Mark Andrews marka at isc.org
Thu Oct 31 14:11:46 UTC 2013


In message <20131031114900.GB10055 at fantomas.sk>, Matus UHLAR - fantomas writes:
> On 30.10.13 21:58, Samp, Daniel [USA] wrote:
> >In the past when I've had issues with certain .gov sites (e.g. noaa.gov,
> > nih.gov, ssa.gov) it was due to application based filtering (layer 4). 
> > For some reason the responses from these sites are more often than not
> > fragmented and if you have something doing filtering based on ports it may
> > not be delivering the follow-up fragments because they do not have the tcp
> > headers.  Do a tcpdump of your DNS traffic from noaa.gov and check to see
> > if reponses are being fragmented and whether you are receiving all of the
> > fragments. 
> 
> > We had to set edns-udp-size to 512 as a workaround until we
> > could identify the problematic piece of hardware.
> 
> this is a server option, not a client option. did you have to set this on
> your recursive servers, because HW between them and your clients was
> problematic?

edns-udp-size is for telling the server what size to send to you.
max-udp-size is for limiting response size sent to clients.
 
> If you did find the culprit, can you tell us who was it?
> 
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