[Pdns-users] problems resolving CNAME's with pdns_recursor 3.1.7

[Tom Mueller]

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Hi,

sometimes the pdns_recursor doesn't send all A or AAAA records where
the requested CNAME points to.
There are no cascading CNAMES, the CNAME points to an A record.
In the first query the A records are missing, some seconds (and
several more requests) later the A records were sent, too
The TTL shows that the records are fetched by pdns_recursor in the
same second.
Hint: the 'X' in hostnames and IP addresses is a replacement of other
chars and digits.

Additional informations:
We are running 2 instances of pdns_recursor listening at different
ports on this IP to scale the amount of queries.
The  concerning instance has a load average of round about 1500 qps.


There are no error messages in the log - so I wonder what's happened?
There is another issue that sometimes existing AAAA records of another
host not sent but only the A records.

I think, when there was an error condition during recursion the
pdns_recursor has to sent a SERVFAIL, but it didn't.
So it may be possible that there is an issue in the cache management
when a refresh is needed it is not performed immediately?
Any idea?

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~ # dig XXftp.rz-ip.net

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> XXftp.rz-ip.net
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 36210
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;XXftp.rz-ip.net.                        IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
XXftp.rz-ip.net.         1545    IN      CNAME   XXXservices.rz-ip.net.

;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 85.214.7.22#53(85.214.7.22)
;; WHEN: Thu Jul 16 00:25:24 2009
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 56

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~ # dig XXftp.rz-ip.net

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> XXftp.rz-ip.net
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 42761
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;XXftp.rz-ip.net.                        IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
XXftp.rz-ip.net.         1510    IN      CNAME   XXXservices.rz-ip.net.
XXXservices.rz-ip.net.    1800    IN      A       XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
XXXservices.rz-ip.net.    1800    IN      A       XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 85.214.7.22#53(85.214.7.22)
;; WHEN: Thu Jul 16 00:25:59 2009

;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 88

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Best regards

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