[Unbound-users] Potential Bug

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Zitat von "W.C.A. Wijngaards" <wouter at NLnetLabs.nl>:

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> Hi Robert,
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> On 06/29/2011 04:59 PM, W.C.A. Wijngaards wrote:
>> Hi Robert,
>>
>> On 06/29/2011 04:32 PM, Robert Fleischman wrote:
>>> I said:
>>
>>>>> Potential Bug: In "mesh_state_cleanup", I noticed that
>>>>> "comm_point_drop_reply" is called to remove unset replies, HOWEVER, it
>>>>> does not appear that either "stats_dropped" is incremented or more
>>>>> importantly "num_reply_addrs" is not decremented.    Doesn't this lack
>>>>> of a decrement potentially cause the "16 times" limit go into effect and
>>>>> prematurely drop queries?
>>
>>> Your response:
>>
>>>> The num_reply_addrs is decremented when a reply is sent (which can be an
>>>> error if the mesh state is removed because of an error).  The
>>>> mesh_state_cleanup indeed does not cleanup the num_reply_addrs value
>>>> correctly, but this routine is only called from the mesh_state_delete
>>>> function.  Thus it does not present a bug.
>>
>>> Okay, I agree.
>>
>>> Consider this:  Assume my Internet connection goes out for a bit, thus
>>> no replies come
>>> in, so, queries pile up quickly.
>>
>>> Consider the following code path during this outage:
>>
>>> mesh_new_client() -> mesh_make_new_space() -> Code in
>>> mesh_make_new_space() decides jostle is needed ->
>>> mesh_state_delete() -> mesh_state_cleanup()
>>
>>> That causes num_reply_addrs to NOT be decremented.
>>
>>> Now my Internet connection comes back, BUT, num_reply_addrs got so
>>> high that the "16 times" limit goes into effect.  Now I get all my
>>> queries dropped even though there is no error or problem anymore.
>>
>>> My temporary outage caused num_reply_addrs to grow and there is no way
>>> for it to come back down.  So, I'm stuck dropping queries until a
>>> restart of the server.
>>
>> You are correct, and I was wrong.  It should be fixed.
>>
>> Thanks for the report (and persistence :-) )
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> Fixed in the svn trunk development of unbound.
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> This code path is triggered by jostled queries.  It is not triggered by
> ordinary timeouts or servfails.

So it is not included in 1.4.11 ?

Regards

Andreas