Resolver not always resolving hostnames

[Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu]

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:22:25 +0300
Ion-Mihai "IOnut" Tetcu <itetcu at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 11:58:12 +0200
> "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hey,
> > 
> > I think something odd is going on in the resolver.  It seems like it
> > doesn't resolve hostnames some of the time.  It's not really easily
> > reproducible, but I have seen it happen several times with cvsup
> > where it can't resolve the cvsup server.  If I re-run cvsup it
> > works fine.
> > 
> > I see it on recent -CURRNET's (server running cvsup below is October
> > 12, system running host(1) is October 15).
> > 
> > The cvsup log:
> > 
> > CVSup update begins at 2006-10-18 17:29:00
> > Updating from cvsup3.dk.freebsd.org
> > Name lookup failure for "cvsup3.dk.freebsd.org": Host name lookup
> > failed Updating local ncvs
> > CVSup update ends at 2006-10-18 17:29:01
> > 
> > I also seen odd things happen with host(1).  These two commands were
> > run right after each other.  I don't know if it's related, but I
> > suspect it is.
> > 
> > $ host cvsup3.dk.freebsd.org
> > cvsup3.dk.freebsd.org is an alias for mirror03.inet.tele.dk.
> > cvsup3.dk.freebsd.org is an alias for mirror03.inet.tele.dk.
> > $ host cvsup3.dk.freebsd.org
> > cvsup3.dk.freebsd.org is an alias for mirror03.inet.tele.dk.
> > mirror03.inet.tele.dk has address 195.41.53.219
> > cvsup3.dk.freebsd.org is an alias for mirror03.inet.tele.dk.
> > cvsup3.dk.freebsd.org is an alias for mirror03.inet.tele.dk.
> > 
> > I only have one name-server in resolv.conf, so the problem isn't due
> > to hitting different caching name-servers.
> > 
> > Initially I thought it was a local problem for me, but joel@ has
> > seen the same on RELENG_6 (from July 8), and xride@ has seen the
> > same/similar with csup where his workaround was to ping the cvsup
> > server before running csup.
> > 
> > So, has anyone seen anything similar?  Since I can't reproduce the
> > issue at will I don't really know where to look for what's going on,
> > and of course it could be DNS issue...
> 
> Seen the same, I believe it started sometime around 21 Jun in
> RELEND_6.

The machine in question, where I first observed this is:
 6.1-STABLE #1: Fri Jun  9 13:26:04 EEST 2006


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