Re: Jostle logic seems to randomly stop working

[A. Schulze via Unbound-users]

Dmitri Kourennyi via Unbound-users:

More investigation results:

Since it seems to coincide with the auth-zone lookups, I will try disabling it to see if the issue resolves itself.

similar observation: the systems I mentioned also had auth-zones enabled.
I removed the feature and now the seem to run more reliable.

unbound-1.7.1

problematic, now disabled config:
auth-zone:
        name: "."
        for-downstream: no
        for-upstream: yes
        fallback-enabled: yes
        master: b.root-servers.net
        master: c.root-servers.net
        master: e.root-servers.net
        master: f.root-servers.net
        master: g.root-servers.net
        master: k.root-servers.net
        zonefile: "auth-zones/root-rfc7706.zone"

auth-zone:
        name: "arpa."
        for-downstream: no
        for-upstream: yes
        fallback-enabled: yes
        master: b.root-servers.net
        master: c.root-servers.net
        master: e.root-servers.net
        master: f.root-servers.net
        master: g.root-servers.net
        master: k.root-servers.net
        zonefile: "auth-zones/arpa-rfc7706.zone"

Andreas