Unbound not always resolving immediately after start.

Daisuke HIGASHI daisuke.higashi at gmail.com
Mon Sep 14 12:16:50 UTC 2015


> bind-users have discussed same issue last year:

discussion starts from this mail
  https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2014-December/094239.html


2015-09-14 21:15 GMT+09:00 Daisuke HIGASHI <daisuke.higashi at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> SERVFAIL on tweakers.net seems to be from fix on CVE-2014-8500.
> This fix essentially limits number of query (to authoritative servers)
> to resolve target qname. If a qname requires many query to resolve
> it becomes SERVFAIL This situation often occurs when cache is empty
> (e.g. just after starting unbound or cache flush)
>
> bind-users have discussed same issue last year:
>   https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2014-December/thread.html
>
> Possible workarounds are to increase MAX_TARGET_COUNT
> (iterator/iterator.h) to relax number of query limitation but it may
> reduce robustness against CVE-2014-8500-related attack.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Daisuke HIIGASHI
>
>
> 2015-09-11 18:39 GMT+09:00 Frank de Bot via Unbound-users
> <unbound-users at unbound.net>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Under FreeBSD I'm setting up a resolv-only unbound server. While testing
>> I've noticed some domain do not resolve (server returns SERVFAIL)



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