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Re: Google Public DNS Problems?


From: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 00:43:33 -0400

On May 1, 2013 5:09 PM, "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
wrote:

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Yang Yu <yang.yu.list () gmail com> wrote:

It is very courteous to reply a SERVFAIL for requests being rate
limited.


I believe the 'rate-limit' response is actually 'no response' ... though I
haven't tested this myself :)



Yes if someone has a misbehaving program or is trying to DOS you, you don't
really want to reply with anything.

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Andrew Fried <andrew.fried () gmail com>
wrote:
Your IPs may have been rate limited...

Andy

Andrew Fried
andrew.fried () gmail com

On 5/1/13 12:38 PM, Blair Trosper wrote:
That's all well and good, but I certainly wouldn't expect "nslookup
gmail.com" or for "nslookup google.com" to return SERVFAIL


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Joe Abley <jabley () hopcount ca> wrote:


On 2013-05-01, at 12:09, Blair Trosper <blair.trosper () gmail com>
wrote:

Is anyone else seeing this?  From Santa Clara, CA, on Comcast
Business...I'm getting SERVFAIL for any query I throw at 8.8.8.8
and
8.8.4.4...

Level 3's own public resolvers are fine for me, as are OpenDNS's
resolvers.

Google just turned on validation across the whole of 8.8.8.8 and
8.8.4.4.
The expected behaviour in the case where a response does not
validate
is to
return SERVFAIL to the client.

You could check that the queries you are sending are not suffering
from
poor signing hygiene (e.g. use the handy-dandy
dnsviz.netvisualisation).

If this is a repeatable, consistent problem even for unsigned zones
(or
for zones that you've verified are signed correctly) and especially
if
it's
widespread you might want to call google on the nanog courtesy phone
and
have them look for collateral damage from their recent foray into
8.8.8.8
validation.

Raw output from dig/drill and traceroutes to 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 are
highly
recommended if you need to take this further.


Joe





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