From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/1663 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Charlie Brady Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: dnscache endless resolving loop Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:16:45 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <20080228152254.GA21748@home.power> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204215428 2992 80.91.229.12 (28 Feb 2008 16:17:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:17:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: supervision@list.skarnet.org To: Alex Efros Original-X-From: supervision-return-1898-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Thu Feb 28 17:17:34 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcsg-supervision@gmane.org Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by lo.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JUlRf-00049u-Hc for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:17:19 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 29305 invoked by uid 76); 28 Feb 2008 16:17:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 29299 invoked from network); 28 Feb 2008 16:17:08 -0000 X-X-Sender: charlieb@e-smith.charlieb.ott.istop.com In-Reply-To: <20080228152254.GA21748@home.power> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:1663 Archived-At: On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Alex Efros wrote: > server")... dnscache run on 127.0.0.1 so it isn't remote attack. > > After all I got an Idea: maybe it's dnscache is the one who asking > dnscache? :) I did strace, and, yes, it looks like dnscache send PTR > requests to itself in endless loop. Move your dnscache to, say, 127.0.0.9, and you will escape this loop. Or add an override delegation for that reverse zone, in ./root/servers.