DNS resolution failure in high load environment with SERVFAIL and "out of memory/success" in the log
Issue
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"SERVFAIL" message once domain ttl is expired.
For example,;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 3504 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.example.com.INA ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.example.com.3374INCNAMEt.www.example.com.edgesuite.net. www.example.com.edgesuite.net. 74 INCNAMEa1189.r.akamai.net. a1189.r.akamai.net. 1 IN A 115.112.3.13 a1189.r.akamai.net. 1 IN A 115.112.3.6 <---- TTL is 1s ;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 10.132.60.18#53(10.132.60.18) ;; WHEN: Fri Apr 24 21:15:15 2015 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 137 $ date +%T; dig www.example.com 21:15:16 ; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.el6_6.1 <<>> www.example.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 44786 <---------- SERVFAIL. ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.example.com.INA ;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 10.132.60.18#53(10.132.60.18) ;; WHEN: Fri Apr 24 21:15:16 2015 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 33
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- bind
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