[Pdns-users] Problems with PowerDNS and specific Domain

Winfried Angele abang at t-ipnet.net
Thu Feb 2 11:54:23 UTC 2023


Hello Markus,

See also

https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/settings.html#server-down-throttle-time
https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/settings.html#dont-throttle-names
https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/settings.html#dont-throttle-netmasks


Winfried

On 02.02.23 12:11, Winfried Angele via Pdns-users wrote:
> Hello Markus,
> 
> ns1.namecity.com (62.128.193.35) and ns2.namecity.com (84.22.161.171) 
> does not respond reliably. Many timeouts. But sometimes they answer 
> anyway. I guess it was a coincidence that it worked with unbound.
> 
> Winfried
> 
> On 02.02.23 11:52, Markus Ehrlicher via Pdns-users wrote:
>> Hello Winfried,
>>
>> thanks for your feedback. I thought the same, so I made another test 
>> with unbound on a testserver. Unbound can do the lookup, pdns-recursor 
>> not. Both recursors are completely "unconfigured" (nothing changed 
>> after install) on this testsystem:
>>
>> root at TESTSERVER:~# service unbound start
>>   * Starting recursive DNS server 
>> unbound                                                                                                                                                                                              [ OK ]
>> root at TESTSERVER:~# unbound-control flush_zone igspn.com ok removed 0 
>> rrsets, 0 messages and 0 key entries root at TESTSERVER:~# netstat 
>> -tulpen | grep ":53"
>> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:53              0.0.0.0:*               
>> LISTEN      0          22791       4846/unbound
>> udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:53              
>> 0.0.0.0:*                           0          22790       4846/unbound
>> root at TESTSERVER:~# dig ws.igspn.com @localhost
>>
>> ; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-3ubuntu0.19+esm9-Ubuntu <<>> ws.igspn.com @localhost 
>> ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer:
>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 55176 ;; flags: qr 
>> rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
>>
>> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
>> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
>> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>> ;ws.igspn.com.                  IN      A
>>
>> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>> ws.igspn.com.           3132    IN      A       210.118.78.162
>>
>> ;; Query time: 2 msec
>> ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
>> ;; WHEN: Thu Feb 02 11:46:26 CET 2023
>> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 57
>>
>> root at TESTSERVER:~# service unbound stop
>>   * Stopping recursive DNS server 
>> unbound                                                                                                                                                                                              [ OK ]
>> root at TESTSERVER:~# service pdns-recursor start
>>   * Starting PowerDNS recursor 
>> pdns-recursor                                                                                                                                                                                           [ OK ]
>> root at TESTSERVER:~# rec_control wipe-cache igspn.com$ wiped 0 records, 
>> 0 negative records root at TESTSERVER:~# netstat -tulpen | grep ":53"
>> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:53            0.0.0.0:*               
>> LISTEN      0          23092       5036/pdns_recursor
>> udp        0      0 127.0.0.1:53            
>> 0.0.0.0:*                           0          23091       
>> 5036/pdns_recursor
>> root at TESTSERVER:~# dig ws.igspn.com @localhost
>>
>> ; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-3ubuntu0.19+esm9-Ubuntu <<>> ws.igspn.com @localhost 
>> ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer:
>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 29960 ;; flags: 
>> qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>>
>> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>> ;ws.igspn.com.                  IN      A
>>
>> ;; Query time: 3037 msec
>> ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
>> ;; WHEN: Thu Feb 02 11:47:05 CET 2023
>> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 30
>>
>> root at TESTSERVER:~#
>>
>> best regards,
>> Markus
>>
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>> von Winfried Angele via Pdns-users
>> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 2. Februar 2023 11:29
>> An: pdns-users at mailman.powerdns.com
>> Betreff: Re: [Pdns-users] Problems with PowerDNS and specific Domain
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>>
>> Hello Markus,
>>
>> The Authoritative nameservers does not talk to your Recursors (timeouts):
>>
>> Feb  2 08:33:39 ns1 pdns_recursor[916]: ws.igspn.com: Trying IP 
>> 62.128.193.35:53, asking 'ws.igspn.com|A'
>> Feb  2 08:33:39 ns1 pdns_recursor[916]: ws.igspn.com: timeout 
>> resolving after 1574.81msec Feb  2 08:33:39 ns1 pdns_recursor[916]: 
>> ws.igspn.com: Trying to resolve NS 'ns2.namecity.com' (2/2) Feb  2 
>> 08:33:39 ns1 pdns_recursor[916]: ws.igspn.com: Resolved 'igspn.com' NS 
>> ns2.namecity.com to: 84.22.161.171 Feb  2 08:33:39 ns1 
>> pdns_recursor[916]: ws.igspn.com: Trying IP 84.22.161.171:53, asking 
>> 'ws.igspn.com|A'
>> Feb  2 08:33:39 ns1 pdns_recursor[916]: ws.igspn.com: timeout 
>> resolving after 1514.68msec Feb  2 08:33:39 ns1 pdns_recursor[916]: 
>> ws.igspn.com: Failed to resolve via any of the 2 offered NS at level 
>> 'igspn.com'
>>
>> This might mean that your Recursor IP addresses are blocked there or 
>> it is a routing problem.
>>
>> Winfried
>>
>>
>> On 02.02.23 11:13, Markus Ehrlicher via Pdns-users wrote:
>>> Hello together,
>>>
>>> since a few days, we have massive problems with DNS-lookup for a 
>>> specific domain (ws.igspn.com) from our two recursors (PDNS-Recursor 
>>> 4.8.2 on Ubuntu 18.04LTS). On my first investigation, I thought that 
>>> bad latency to the responsible nameservers is the problem, but if I 
>>> do a forward-zones-recurse to Google 
>>> (forward-zones-recurse=igspn.com=8.8.8.8), everything works like a 
>>> charm. I traced both lookups, but I can't find a clue, what could be 
>>> wrong on our side. Can someone test from another location, to rule 
>>> out that it is a PowerDNS problem? Any other suggestions?
>>> ...
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