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Re: OT: Akamai DNS and Yahoo


From: Paul Vixie <vixie () vix com>
Date: 10 Nov 2004 01:09:57 +0000


John.Neiberger () efirstbank com ("John Neiberger") writes:

... Beginning sometime very recently, our DNS servers are not able to
resolve www.yahoo.com. I have no problem if I point my PC to an external
DNS server, but when I point it back at our internal servers I get
timeouts when trying to resolve that domain.

... We're running a version of BIND 8 on Solaris 9, and it's likely that
this behavior began this weekend after we applied the most recent patch
cluster for Solaris 9 and rebooted the server. For quite a while, all
external DNS was failing and we still have some odd intermittent problems
but the most noticable issue that is 100% reproducible is the failure to
resolve Yahoo addresses.

...

you'll need to get tcpdump running, and watch what queries are sent to whom,
and whether a nonrecognizable response is coming back.  this sounds like a
problem with your ip source address or port number, rather than EDNS or
packet size.
-- 
Paul Vixie


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