Search the archives this has been answered before. It is a bug in a perl module
on which packetfence depends.
"Sallee, Stephen (Jake)" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Ludovic!
>
>I am so glad to hear from you! Thank you for taking the time to
>respond.
>
>I am getting the dependency issue when I include perl-Net-DNS in my yum
>update.
>
>--------<snip>----------
>Error: Package: packetfence-4.0.5-2.el6.noarch (@PacketFence)
> Requires: perl(Net::DNS) = 0.65-4
> Removing: perl-Net-DNS-0.65-4.el6.x86_64 (@base)
> perl(Net::DNS) = 0.65
> Updated By: perl-Net-DNS-0.66-1.of.el6.x86_64 (of)
> perl(Net::DNS) = 0.66
> You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
> You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>--------</snip>---------
>
>So I'm looking into that. However I found something interesting. One
>of my registration clients is sending a strange DNS query and every
>time pfdns sees it, it crashes.
>
>The query is exactly:
>
>ng="utf-8".umhb.edu
>
>I blocked that IP from sending queries to PF and the service hasn't
>crashed since.
>
>I have tried to send this query to my test server to see if I can
>replicate the behavior but I need to edit the pcap to make it go to the
>test server.
>
>I can send you a link to DL the pcap if you are interested in looking
>at it.
>
>Also, any idea on the dependency issue is most welcome too : )
>
>Thank you again.
>
>Jake Sallee
>Godfather of Bandwidth
>System Engineer
>University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
>
>900 College St.
>Belton, Texas
>76513
>
>Fone: 254-295-4658
>Phax: 254-295-4221
>________________________________
>From: Ludovic Marcotte [[email protected]]
>Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 11:38 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [PacketFence-users] PFDNS crashing every few seconds HELP!
>
>Upgrade perl net dns to the latest version from our repo.
>
>"Sallee, Stephen (Jake)" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>Crap, sorry. Forgot:
>
>PF v 4.0.5-2
>CentOS 6.4
>
>perl-Net-DNS-0.65-4.el6.x86_64
>perl-Net-DNS-Nameserver-0.65-4.el6.x86_64
>
>Jake Sallee
>Godfather of Bandwidth
>System Engineer
>University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
>
>900 College St.
>Belton, Texas
>76513
>
>Fone: 254-295-4658
>Phax: 254-295-4221
>
>________________________________
>
>From: Sallee, Stephen (Jake) [[email protected]]
>Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 11:06 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [PacketFence-users] PFDNS crashing every few seconds HELP!
>
>Fellow PF users, I am in need of your assistance!
>
>My production PF box is having the pfdns service crash every few
>seconds.
>
>I am working on getting some pcaps to see if it is network based but I
>cannot find anything on the logs. It seems to be failing completely
>silently.
>
>I would appreciate any assistance you ca
> n
>offer.
>
>Jake Sallee
>Godfather of Bandwidth
>System Engineer
>University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
>
>900 College St.
>Belton, Texas
>76513
>
>Fone: 254-295-4658
>Phax: 254-295-4221
>
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