Dynatrace reports a high number of NXDOMAIN responses in OpenShift

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Issue

After installing the Dynatrace Monitoring tools, it's noticed there area high number of DNS NXDOMAIN responses replied by the OpenShift Cluster DNS Deployment (CoreDNS).

After enabling DNS trace logging on the DNS Operator, it is seen that there are many DNS search queries performed, similar to the following:

[INFO] 10.0.0.XX:58158 - 15882 "A IN argocd-repo-server.argocd.svc.cluster.local.argocd.svc.cluster.local. udp 97 false 512" NXDOMAIN qr,aa,rd 179 0.000137873s
[INFO] 10.0.0.XX:44701 - 47419 "A IN argocd-repo-server.argocd.svc.cluster.local.svc.cluster.local. udp 90 false 512" NXDOMAIN qr,aa,rd 172 0.000091417s
[INFO] 10.0.0.XX:35980 - 53345 "A IN argocd-repo-server.argocd.svc.cluster.local.cluster.local. udp 86 false 512" NXDOMAIN qr,aa,rd 168 0.000061879s
[INFO] 10.0.0.XX:45987 - 58265 "A IN argocd-repo-server.argocd.svc.cluster.local.example-cluster.com. udp 94 false 512" NXDOMAIN qr,aa,rd,ra 165 0.000046381s
[INFO] 10.0.0.XX:54202 - 21569 "A IN argocd-repo-server.argocd.svc.cluster.local. udp 72 false 512" NOERROR qr,aa,rd 120 0.000080555s

Dynatrace is reporting the DNS NXDOMAIN rate is between 50% & 70% on all Nodes in the cluster.

Environment

  • OpenShift Container Platform
    • 4.10

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