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Subject: Bug#116501: dnrd: dnrd forgets entries it's master for
Reply-To: Paul Slootman <paul@...>, 116501@...
From: Paul Slootman <paul@...>
To: submit@...
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 14:32:42 +0200

Package: dnrd
Version: 2.8-3
Severity: important

Check out this log:

Oct 21 14:20:41 server /dnrd[4918]: 81 records in master DNS database
Oct 21 14:20:52 server /dnrd[4918]: Received DNS query for "server.local"
Oct 21 14:20:52 server /dnrd[4918]: Replying to query as master
Oct 21 14:20:54 server /dnrd[4918]: Received DNS query for "bla.local"
Oct 21 14:20:54 server /dnrd[4918]: Forwarding the query to DNS server
194.159.73.136
[no answer, ISDN is stopped so cannot dialout to connect to 194.159.73.136]
Oct 21 14:23:01 server /dnrd[4918]: dnsquery_timeout: removed 1 entries
Oct 21 14:23:01 server /dnrd[4918]: Received DNS query for "server.local"
Oct 21 14:23:01 server /dnrd[4918]: Forwarding the query to DNS server
194.159.73.136

Note how it first responded as master for "server.local", but after a
failed lookup for "bla.local" (which isn't in the master file) it's
forgotten how to answer for "server.local".

The master file starts like this:

domain local server.local +auth
192.0.0.192 server

As it's authorative for domain local, it should never forward requests
for things like "bla.local" to another server. This causes unnecessary
ISDN dialouts, costing money. The whole point of dnrd is lost because of
this (hence the "important" severity level).

dnrd is invoked as:

dnrd --master=hosts -l -d -s 164.48.51.158:ericsson.se -s 194.159.73.136


Thanks,
Paul Slootman

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux wurtel 2.2.20pre2 #2 Sun May 27 17:46:10 CEST 2001 i586
unknown

Versions of the packages dnrd depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.4-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone


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