[Bug 1665394] Re: DNS resolution of irc.freenode.net or chat.freenode.net fails

2018-01-26 Thread Steve Langasek
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1731522 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1731522 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1731522 systemd-resolved does not listen on TCP port, cannot serve large records (Cannot ping pod51041.outlook.com but can dig.) -- You received this bug

[Bug 1665394] Re: DNS resolution of irc.freenode.net or chat.freenode.net fails

2017-02-21 Thread Pirouette Cacahuète
It is likely to be an upstream problem. Given a zone with A/ records with enough addresses, I can reproduce the problem. Hacking in systemd source code, I could find those STR: - disable "resolve" in nsswitch.conf - add a resolution against a record with a lot of addresses in

[Bug 1665394] Re: DNS resolution of irc.freenode.net or chat.freenode.net fails

2017-02-17 Thread Pirouette Cacahuète
So, comment #5 is somehow invalid, I got the whole story on why it started to work again: Schiggn (comment #4) contacted some Freenode staff, and they changed the DNS records to expose less addresses. This indeed proved to workaround the issue. -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 1665394] Re: DNS resolution of irc.freenode.net or chat.freenode.net fails

2017-02-17 Thread Pirouette Cacahuète
Adding back "[NOTFOUND=return] resolve" to /etc/nsswitch.conf, setting DNSSEC=no in /etc/systemd/resolved.conf, restarting systemd-resolved process and then: > $ getent ahosts irc.freenode.net Gives proper list of hosts Commenting again the DNSSEC line of resolved.conf, restarting the service,

[Bug 1665394] Re: DNS resolution of irc.freenode.net or chat.freenode.net fails

2017-02-16 Thread Schiggn
iputils/ping was wrong. On machines with this bug a "getent hosts chat.freenode.net" results in no output! Perhaps we have to look at getaddrinfo()! Thanks to the french ubuntu-channel #ubuntu-fr for this hint :) ** No longer affects: iputils (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1665394] Re: DNS resolution of irc.freenode.net or chat.freenode.net fails

2017-02-16 Thread Schiggn
Perhaps this is an issue in iputils/ping if the response is to big. You can try this with normal ping command too. ping c1 chat.freeenode.net results in a "ping: chat.freenode.net: Temporary failure in name resolution" Using expicit -4 or -6 does work instead. Workaround as mentioned above:

[Bug 1665394] Re: DNS resolution of irc.freenode.net or chat.freenode.net fails

2017-02-16 Thread Pirouette Cacahuète
A workaround is to remove "[NOTFOUND=return] resolve" from /etc/nsswitch.conf, though it may break other things (but nothing visible so far). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1665394

[Bug 1665394] Re: DNS resolution of irc.freenode.net or chat.freenode.net fails

2017-02-16 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1665394 Title: