unbound resolving different address intermittenly

Ralph Dolmans ralph at nlnetlabs.nl
Wed Oct 31 14:28:42 UTC 2018


Hi Andrew,

Not sure I understand your question/problem. Is Unbound sometimes
skipping the forwarder and resolving as if there is no forwarder
configured? Do you have forward-first enabled? In that case Unbound will
ignore the configured forwarder when they become unreachable. Maybe that
happened?

-- Ralph

On 30-10-18 14:52, Andrew Meyer via Unbound-users wrote:
> I have recently setup unbound on CentOS 7 (latest) running version
> 1.6.6.  So far unbound has been chugging away for about a month.  In my
> configuration I have an on premise server configured with lots of
> internal forwarded domains going to Amazon Route53.   As of yesterday
> unbound started to flip/flop resolution from the internal/private zones
> to the external zones.  I'm not sure why.  I have turned up the logging
> verbosity to see if there was an apparent issue.  I though at one point
> we hit a wall with number of packets per request.  My colleague and I
> thought we hit a resource records maximum limit.   We have opened a
> ticket with Amazon to get more information on their side.  
> 
> In my config file:
> num-threads: 4 
> so-rcvbuf: 4m
> so-sndbuf: 4m
> cache-max-negative-ttl: 10
> do-ip4: yes
> do-ip6: yes
> do-udp: yes
> do-tcp: yes
> 
> 
> Everything in my zones config file is a forward-zone and not a
> stub-zone, not sure if that matters.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> Andrew



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