Re: Weird DNS issue with a specific web site with Fedora 12 (Temporary failure in name resolution?)

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Hi all,

Digging around I think the issue is a bug in Fedora 12.

I wrote some C code that performs the DNS lookup by two different
system calls: gethostbyname2 and getaddrinfo. the later system call
always returns the error message 'Temporary failure in name
resolution'.

Running the code on my computer:
====
$ ./testDNS www.bom.gov.au
Getting DNS info for host: www.bom.gov.au
Trying gethostbyname
hosent details:
h_name: www.bom.gov.au
h_aliases:

h_addrtype: 2
h_length:4
h_addr_list:
210.8.42.125

Trying getaddrinfo
Error returned by getaddrinfo: Temporary failure in name resolution
====

I have run the same program on a RHEL4 and RHEL5 computers that are
configured with the same windows DNS servers of our organization and
they are both able to resolve the address with getaddrinfo
successfully.

If anyone would like to see the test C code program I am happy to send it.

All in all a very weird problem.

Tim.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Tim Long <timwarm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > Wild guess:  Look at your resolv.conf files.
>
> It is very simple (I think):
>
> ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
> search bom.gov.au
> nameserver 134.178.14.1
> nameserver 134.178.14.3
>
>
>
> > But, with the amount of blanking out of details in your reports, they're
> > next to useless for anyone to diagnose anything with.  Have a look at
> > your message headers, if you see the same addresses as you've been
> > hiding, then there's no point hiding them.  Post your error reports with
> > the real addresses showing.
> >
>
> The full dig messages (querying windows server followed by unix server):
> ====
> [timl@timl ~]$ dig www.bom.gov.au
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.6.1-P3-RedHat-9.6.1-16.P3.fc12 <<>> www.bom.gov.au
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15815
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;www.bom.gov.au.                        IN      A
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> www.bom.gov.au.         14      IN      A       210.8.42.125
>
> ;; Query time: 0 msec
> ;; SERVER: 134.178.14.1#53(134.178.14.1)
> ;; WHEN: Wed Feb 10 09:47:54 2010
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 48
>
> [timl@timl ~]$ dig @134.178.6.5 www.bom.gov.au
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.6.1-P3-RedHat-9.6.1-16.P3.fc12 <<>> @134.178.6.5 www.bom.gov.au
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 33002
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;www.bom.gov.au.                        IN      A
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> www.bom.gov.au.         13      IN      A       210.8.42.125
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> www.bom.gov.au.         600     IN      NS      bom-aapt-scss.bom.gov.au.
> www.bom.gov.au.         600     IN      NS      bom-aapt-pcss.bom.gov.au.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> bom-aapt-pcss.bom.gov.au. 600   IN      A       210.8.186.42
> bom-aapt-scss.bom.gov.au. 600   IN      A       210.8.42.106
>
> ;; Query time: 1 msec
> ;; SERVER: 134.178.6.5#53(134.178.6.5)
> ;; WHEN: Wed Feb 10 09:48:47 2010
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 136
> ===
>
> >> work around that has been found is to run dnsmasq on the Fedora
> >> workstations.
> >
> > Isn't that the kludge suggested for IPv6 problems?  (I can't remember.)
> > If so, look into either getting IPv6 working properly, or *completely*
> > disabled.
>
> I have heard that dnsmasq has been used as  work around bad DNS
> resolvers inside ADSL modems that don't handle queries for AAAA
> records properly.
>
> The workstations in question don't seem to have this issue. IPv6 is
> enabled but there are no v6 gateways/routers on the network so they
> only have link-local addresses.
>
> Tim.
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