1000s of "SERVFAIL . . . service.arpa" messages
Jon Murphy
jcmurphy26 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 10 19:21:32 UTC 2025
Hello,
Happy new year everyone!
Since the beginning of October 2024 I have been seeing lots of these messages:
```
Oct 2 17:53:31 ipfire unbound: [15153:0] error: SERVFAIL <default.service.arpa. SOA IN>: all the configured stub or forward servers failed, at zone . from 149.112.112.112 got SERVFAIL
Oct 2 17:53:31 ipfire unbound: [15153:0] error: SERVFAIL <service.arpa. SOA IN>: all the configured stub or forward servers failed, at zone . from 149.112.112.11 got SERVFAIL
Oct 2 17:53:32 ipfire unbound: [15153:0] error: SERVFAIL <_matter._tcp.default.service.arpa. PTR IN>: all the configured stub or forward servers failed, at zone . from 9.9.9.11 got SERVFAIL
Oct 2 17:53:40 ipfire unbound: [15153:0] error: SERVFAIL <_L1234._sub._matterc._udp.default.service.arpa. SOA IN>: all the configured stub or forward servers failed, at zone . from 149.112.112.11 got SERVFAIL
Oct 2 17:53:41 ipfire unbound: [15153:0] error: SERVFAIL <_sub._matterc._udp.default.service.arpa. SOA IN>: all the configured stub or forward servers failed, at zone . from 9.9.9.11 got SERVFAIL
Oct 2 17:53:41 ipfire unbound: [15153:0] error: SERVFAIL <_matterc._udp.default.service.arpa. SOA IN>: all the configured stub or forward servers failed, at zone . from 149.112.112.112 got SERVFAIL
Oct 2 17:53:42 ipfire unbound: [15153:0] error: SERVFAIL <_udp.default.service.arpa. SOA IN>: all the configured stub or forward servers failed, at zone . from 149.112.112.11 got SERVFAIL
Oct 2 17:53:42 ipfire unbound: [15153:0] error: SERVFAIL <_1234._sub._matterc._udp.default.service.arpa. PTR IN>: all the configured stub or forward servers failed, at zone . from 9.9.9.11 got SERVFAIL
Oct 2 17:53:52 ipfire unbound: [15153:0] error: SERVFAIL <1234567890123456-1234567890123456._matter._tcp.default.service.arpa. SRV IN>: all the configured stub or forward servers failed, at zone . from 149.112.112.112 got SERVFAIL
Oct 2 17:53:52 ipfire unbound: [15153:0] error: SERVFAIL <1234567890123456-1234567890123456._matter._tcp.default.service.arpa. TXT IN>: all the configured stub or forward servers failed, at zone . from 149.112.112.112 got SERVFAIL
```
There are 1000s of these messages "SERVFAIL . . . service.arpa" every week and 144,028 messages since Oct 2, 2024. Best I can these are all local DNS lookups and they are failing an external DNS lookup for "service.arpa".
This happens with unbound 1.21.0 and persists with unbound 1.22.0.
And I believe this is related to this:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-dnssd-srp-25#section-10.1
So my ask, to stop "service.arpa" from escaping my local network, can "service.arpa" be added to the unbound code as a Special Use Domain Name similar to "home.arpa"?
Best regards,
Jon
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