[Unbound-users] Unbound and Timeouts

[Gareth Hopkins]

Hi Again :)

So I have been testing unbound quite extensively over the past couple of
days and am really liking it.

I have a question though, regarding timeouts.

A 'unbound-control dump_requestlist' shows the following

thread #0
#   type cl name    seconds    module status
  0    A IN cascata.com. 123.845855 iterator wait for 69.90.13.6
  1    A IN 68-116-240-174.dhcp.ftca.co.charter.com. 123.919558 iterator
wait for 66.191.36.11
  2  PTR IN 3.178.248.207.in-addr.arpa. 151.365325 iterator wait for
204.153.24.1
  3  PTR IN 5.136.26.58.in-addr.arpa. 152.588019 iterator wait for
58.26.136.10
  4  PTR IN 10.247.62.207.in-addr.arpa. 146.790214 iterator wait for
207.62.235.40
  5  PTR IN 30.247.62.207.in-addr.arpa. 156.369539 iterator wait for
207.62.235.40
  6  PTR IN 38.49.154.204.in-addr.arpa. 129.552641 iterator wait for
204.154.48.15
  7  PTR IN 55.17.184.167.in-addr.arpa. 126.195268 iterator wait for
167.184.128.29
  8  PTR IN 71.247.62.207.in-addr.arpa. 156.820779 iterator wait for
207.62.235.40
  9  PTR IN 114.113.195.166.in-addr.arpa. 144.681431 iterator wait for
209.183.48.20
 10  PTR IN 116.189.34.200.in-addr.arpa. 154.386975 iterator wait for
200.34.109.90
 11  PTR IN 120.236.9.204.in-addr.arpa. 135.154707 iterator wait for
66.172.144.3
 12  PTR IN 123.236.9.204.in-addr.arpa. 135.155951 iterator wait for
66.172.144.3
 13  PTR IN 135.25.43.211.in-addr.arpa. 155.581005 iterator wait for
210.104.1.3
 14  PTR IN 139.247.62.207.in-addr.arpa. 152.166376 iterator wait for
207.62.234.180
 15  PTR IN 170.205.77.63.in-addr.arpa. 126.063830 iterator wait for
69.44.24.3
 16  PTR IN 212.89.117.217.in-addr.arpa. 130.618862 iterator wait for
217.117.80.1
 17  PTR IN 250.244.194.66.in-addr.arpa. 130.165708 iterator wait for
24.154.1.7
 18  PTR IN 253.71.43.211.in-addr.arpa. 113.330439 iterator wait for
210.204.251.22

According to dig +trace, most of the errors are Bad Referrals. An example
being

<snip>

247.62.207.in-addr.arpa. 86400  IN      NS      smcdns1.smccd.net.
247.62.207.in-addr.arpa. 86400  IN      NS      candns1.smccd.net.
;; Received 129 bytes from 130.150.102.100#53(ns1.csu.net) in 264 ms

247.62.207.in-addr.arpa. 64122  IN      NS      smcdns1.smccd.net.
247.62.207.in-addr.arpa. 64122  IN      NS      candns1.smccd.net.
;; BAD (HORIZONTAL) REFERRAL
;; Received 129 bytes from 207.62.234.180#53(candns1.smccd.net) in 259 ms

247.62.207.in-addr.arpa. 64122  IN      NS      candns1.smccd.net.
247.62.207.in-addr.arpa. 64122  IN      NS      smcdns1.smccd.net.
;; BAD (HORIZONTAL) REFERRAL
;; Received 129 bytes from 207.62.234.180#53(candns1.smccd.net) in 265 ms

</snip>

How many Bad referrals need to be received before being classed as a
SERVFAIL and how long
will the query be worked on until it times out ?

Thanks

Gareth
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