[Unbound-users] dig fails intermittently, but unbound-host does not

[Andrew Hearn]

On 29/03/11 12:19, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Andrew Hearn wrote:
> 
>> We have version 1.3.4 on a server and have an odd, intermittent, problem
>> with looking up a particular record.
>>
>> We have other unbound and bind servers that don't have this problem.
>>
>> eg:
>>
>> [root at a log]# unbound-control flush farnell.com
>> ok
>> [root at a log]# dig uk.farnell.com @localhost
> 
> That domain seems broken, at least from the "world view":
> 
> [paul at bofh ~]$ dnscheck uk.farnell.com.
>   0.000: uk.farnell.com. INFO Begin testing zone uk.farnell.com. with
> version 1.2.1.
>   0.000: uk.farnell.com. INFO Begin testing delegation for uk.farnell.com..
>   6.008: uk.farnell.com. INFO Name servers listed at parent:
> dns1.cscdns.net,dns2.cscdns.net
>   6.168: uk.farnell.com. ERROR Failed to find name servers of
> uk.farnell.com./IN.
>   6.168: uk.farnell.com. ERROR No name servers found at child.
>   6.168: uk.farnell.com. INFO Done testing delegation for uk.farnell.com..
>   6.168: uk.farnell.com. CRITICAL Fatal error in delegation for zone
> uk.farnell.com..
>   6.168: uk.farnell.com. INFO Test completed for zone uk.farnell.com..
> 
> If it works internally, perhaps one issue is that one of your servers
> uses the external instead
> of internal view?
> 
> Paul


Thanks for the info, but I'm not sure this explains it, as:
  unbound-host uk.farnell.com -v
always works, and gives answers, but
  dig uk.farnell.com @localhost
is intermittent

Also, http://www.squish.net/dnscheck works each time we try



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Andrew Hearn.
AAISP Technical Support Team Leader
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