Can not get a lick of debug information for a slew of queries that are coming back SERVFAIL
Darren Ankney
darren.ankney at gmail.com
Tue Apr 22 09:55:37 UTC 2025
Hi,
I do not know why you would be getting SERVFAIL, but the name ksc.wiki
appears to not exist from my perspective:
% dig ksc.wiki
; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> ksc.wiki
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 26112
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ksc.wiki. IN A
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
wiki. 856 IN SOA a.nic.wiki. admin.tldns.godaddy.
1745315047 1800 300 604800 1800
;; Query time: 8 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.40.42#53(192.168.40.42)
;; WHEN: Tue Apr 22 05:49:30 EDT 2025
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 98
Perhaps try `dig ksc.wiki +cd` as wiki seems to be signed. Perhaps
validation of the non-existence is failing for some reason?
Thank you,
Darren Ankney
On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM The Gorf <thegorf+bind9users at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> bind version:BIND 9.18.33-1~deb12u2-Debian (Extended Support Version) <id:>
>
> So it's pretty simple. Im getting a ton of SERVFAILs randomly and I can neither figure out why nor figure out how to get bind to give me debug information about why. The documentation here:
> https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01526
> Hurts my head to read and references stuff that I can't figure out where in the documentation it is to explain what it is.
>
> I took the exact document on that page and switched everything to "debug" and I have reset the server, rebooted the server, nothing. Here is the exact one line bind produces in its logs for the query that is generating the SERVFAIL:
>
> 22-Apr-2025 01:08:17.138 queries: info: client @0x7ffa3cb78168 192.168.8.104#47099 (ksc.wiki): query: ksc.wiki IN A + (10.30.160.20)
>
> Nothing. And here is the query-errors file:
> geoff at NS1:/var/log/named$ cat query-errors | grep -i wiki
> geoff at NS1:/var/log/named$
> zilch.
>
> So. what am I doing wrong here? Why can't I get any debug info out of this?
>
> logging {
> channel default_log {
> file "/var/log/named/default" versions 3 size 20m;
> print-time yes;
> print-category yes;
> print-severity yes;
> severity debug;
> };
> channel auth_servers_log {
> file "/var/log/named/auth_servers" versions 100 size 20m;
> print-time yes;
> print-category yes;
> print-severity yes;
> severity debug;
> };
> channel dnssec_log {
> file "/var/log/named/dnssec" versions 3 size 20m;
> print-time yes;
> print-category yes;
> print-severity yes;
> severity debug;
> };
> channel zone_transfers_log {
> file "/var/log/named/zone_transfers" versions 3 size 20m;
> print-time yes;
> print-category yes;
> print-severity yes;
> severity debug;
> };
> channel ddns_log {
> file "/var/log/named/ddns" versions 3 size 20m;
> print-time yes;
> print-category yes;
> print-severity yes;
> severity debug;
> };
> channel client_security_log {
> file "/var/log/named/client_security" versions 3 size 20m;
> print-time yes;
> print-category yes;
> print-severity yes;
> severity debug;
> };
> channel rate_limiting_log {
> file "/var/log/named/rate_limiting" versions 3 size 20m;
> print-time yes;
> print-category yes;
> print-severity yes;
> severity debug;
> };
> channel rpz_log {
> file "/var/log/named/rpz" versions 3 size 20m;
> print-time yes;
> print-category yes;
> print-severity yes;
> severity debug;
> };
> channel dnstap_log {
> file "/var/log/named/dnstap" versions 3 size 20m;
> print-time yes;
> print-category yes;
> print-severity yes;
> severity debug;
> };
> //
> // If you have the category ‘queries’ defined, and you don’t want query logging
> // by default, make sure you add option ‘querylog no;’ - then you can toggle
> // query logging on (and off again) using command ‘rndc querylog’
> //
> channel queries_log {
> file "/var/log/named/queries" versions 600 size 20m;
> print-time yes;
> print-category yes;
> print-severity yes;
> severity debug;
> };
> //
> // This channel is dynamic so that when the debug level is increased using
> // rndc while the server is running, extra information will be logged about
> // failing queries. Other debug information for other categories will be
> // sent to the channel default_debug (which is also dynamic), but without
> // affecting the regular logging.
> //
> channel query-errors_log {
> file "/var/log/named/query-errors" versions 5 size 20m;
> print-time yes;
> print-category yes;
> print-severity yes;
> severity debug;
> };
> //
> // This is the default syslog channel, defined here for clarity. You don’t
> // have to use it if you prefer to log to your own channels.
> // It sends to syslog’s daemon facility, and sends only logged messages
> // of priority info and higher.
> // (The options to print time, category and severity are non-default.)
> //
> channel default_syslog {
> print-time yes;
> print-category yes;
> print-severity yes;
> syslog daemon;
> severity debug;
> };
> //
> // This is the default debug output channel, defined here for clarity. You
> // might want to redefine the output destination if it doesn’t fit with your
> // local system administration plans for logging. It is also a special
> // channel that only produces output if the debug level is non-zero.
> //
> channel default_debug {
> print-time yes;
> print-category yes;
> print-severity yes;
> file "named.run";
> severity debug;
> };
> //
> // Log routine stuff to syslog and default log:
> //
> category default { default_syslog; default_debug; default_log; };
> category config { default_syslog; default_debug; default_log; };
> category dispatch { default_syslog; default_debug; default_log; };
> category network { default_syslog; default_debug; default_log; };
> category general { default_syslog; default_debug; default_log; };
> //
> // From BIND 9.12 and newer, you can direct zone load logging to another
> // channel with the new zoneload logging category. If this would be useful
> // then firstly, configure the new channel, and then edit the line below
> // to direct the category there instead of to syslog and default log:
> //
> category zoneload { default_syslog; default_debug; default_log; };
> //
> // Log messages relating to what we got back from authoritative servers during
> // recursion (if lame-servers and edns-disabled are obscuring other messages
> // they can be sent to their own channel or to null). Sometimes these log
> // messages will be useful to research why some domains don’t resolve or
> // don’t resolve reliably
> //
> category resolver { auth_servers_log; default_debug; };
> category cname { auth_servers_log; default_debug; };
> category delegation-only { auth_servers_log; default_debug; };
> category lame-servers { auth_servers_log; default_debug; };
> category edns-disabled { auth_servers_log; default_debug; };
> //
> // Log problems with DNSSEC:
> //
> category dnssec { dnssec_log; default_debug; };
> //
> // Log together all messages relating to authoritative zone propagation
> //
> category notify { zone_transfers_log; default_debug; };
> category xfer-in { zone_transfers_log; default_debug; };
> category xfer-out { zone_transfers_log; default_debug; };
> //
> // Log together all messages relating to dynamic updates to DNS zone data:
> //
> category update{ ddns_log; default_debug; };
> category update-security { ddns_log; default_debug; };
> //
> // Log together all messages relating to client access and security.
> // (There is an additional category ‘unmatched’ that is by default sent to
> // null but which can be added here if you want more than the one-line
> // summary that is logged for failures to match a view).
> //
> category client{ client_security_log; default_debug; };
> category security { client_security_log; default_debug; };
> //
> // Log together all messages that are likely to be related to rate-limiting.
> // This includes RRL (Response Rate Limiting) - usually deployed on authoritative
> // servers and fetches-per-server|zone. Note that it does not include
> // logging of changes for clients-per-query (which are logged in category
> // resolver). Also note that there may on occasions be other log messages
> // emitted by the database category that don’t relate to rate-limiting
> // behaviour by named.
> //
> category rate-limit { rate_limiting_log; default_debug; };
> category spill { rate_limiting_log; default_debug; };
> category database { rate_limiting_log; default_debug; };
> //
> // Log DNS-RPZ (Response Policy Zone) messages (if you are not using DNS-RPZ
> // then you may want to comment out this category and associated channel)
> //
> category rpz { rpz_log; default_debug; };
> //
> // Log messages relating to the "dnstap" DNS traffic capture system (if you
> // are not using dnstap, then you may want to comment out this category and
> // associated channel).
> //
> category dnstap { dnstap_log; default_debug; };
> //
> // If you are running a server (for example one of the Internet root
> // nameservers) that is providing RFC 5011 trust anchor updates, then you
> // may be interested in logging trust anchor telemetry reports that your
> // server receives to analyze anchor propagation rates during a key rollover.
> // If this would be useful then firstly, configure the new channel, and then
> // un-comment and the line below to direct the category there instead of to
> // syslog and default log:
> //
> //
> category trust-anchor-telemetry { default_syslog; default_debug; default_log; };
> //
> // If you have the category ‘queries’ defined, and you don’t want query logging
> // by default, make sure you add option ‘querylog no;’ - then you can toggle
> // query logging on (and off again) using command ‘rndc querylog’
> //
> category queries { queries_log; };
> //
> // This logging category will only emit messages at debug levels of 1 or
> // higher - it can be useful to troubleshoot problems where queries are
> // resulting in a SERVFAIL response.
> //
> category query-errors {query-errors_log; };
> };
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