[Unbound-users] unbound: fatal error: services/outside_network.c:

W.C.A. Wijngaards wouter at nlnetlabs.nl
Fri Sep 28 13:29:14 UTC 2012


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Hi Leo,

Sounds like a bug fixed in svn trunk. (first report for that was from
a Windows user, by the way).

Best regards,
   Wouter

On 09/28/2012 03:14 PM, Leo Bush wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> We use unbound since more than a year already with great
> satisfaction and no issue for resolving 4 Mbps DNS traffic in
> average with DNSSEC enabled.
> 
> We used to have unbound 1.4.14. At the end of August suddenly
> unbound stopped to work. The process killed itself with the
> following message in the logs:
> 
> /var/log/messages:Aug 28 19:35:22 hostname unbound: [7896:1] fatal 
> error: services/outside_network.c:1504: serviced_callbacks:
> pointer whitelist fptr_whitelist_serviced_query(p->cb) failed
> 
> The machine was under no unusual CPU/Memory/Network load.
> 
> We thought, bad luck, started the process and everything was fine
> for one week, when suddenly again the same thing. Fatal error.
> 
> /var/log/messages:Sep  6 14:20:20 hostname unbound: [1503:0] fatal 
> error: services/outside_network.c:1504: serviced_callbacks:
> pointer whitelist fptr_whitelist_serviced_query(p->cb) failed
> 
> Then we thought about our version being too old and we upgraded to
> the latest release unbound 1.4.18.
> 
> Now we are running unbound 1.4.18 since two weeks and today again:
> 
> /var/log/messages:Sep 28 13:59:53 hostname unbound: [1591:1] fatal 
> error: services/outside_network.c:1510: serviced_callbacks:
> pointer whitelist fptr_whitelist_serviced_query(p->cb) failed
> 
> 
> Sounds like a software bug?
> 
> kind regards
> 
> Leo Bush
> 
> 
> By the way, even if I do not think it is related to this case, I
> would like to report on the following behavior, that we note: 
> Several times a day we notice short peaks (<10 minutes) in
> outgoing traffic (times 7). Even if the traffic is so much higher,
> we do not notice a performance issue on the server. CPU and Ram are
> still fine. DNS response times are fine too. A traffic analysis
> suggested a DNS amplification attack where the question is for ANY
> isc.org. This attack never was happening when unbound crashed.
> 
> 
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