dnsparanoia broken in 1.0.11?

Gunther Mayer gunther.mayer at googlemail.com
Tue Apr 1 12:39:24 UTC 2008


Hi guys,

I'm having major issues with the dnsparanoia option as I get way too 
many false positives:

Mar 31 18:30:38  coova-chilli[889]: dns.c: 247: dropping dns for 
anti-dnstunnel (type 2: length 9)
Mar 31 18:30:38  coova-chilli[889]: dns.c: 247: dropping dns for 
anti-dnstunnel (type 2: length 4)
Mar 31 18:30:38  coova-chilli[889]: dns.c: 247: dropping dns for 
anti-dnstunnel (type 2: length 25)
Mar 31 18:32:04  coova-chilli[889]: dns.c: 247: dropping dns for 
anti-dnstunnel (type 6: length 39)
Mar 31 18:32:04  coova-chilli[889]: dns.c: 247: dropping dns for 
anti-dnstunnel (type 12: length 44)
Mar 31 18:32:04  coova-chilli[889]: dns.c: 247: dropping dns for 
anti-dnstunnel (type 6: length 52)
Mar 31 18:32:09  coova-chilli[889]: dns.c: 247: dropping dns for 
anti-dnstunnel (type 12: length 44)
Mar 31 18:32:09  coova-chilli[889]: dns.c: 247: dropping dns for 
anti-dnstunnel (type 6: length 39)
Mar 31 18:32:09  coova-chilli[889]: dns.c: 247: dropping dns for 
anti-dnstunnel (type 12: length 44)
Mar 31 18:32:09  coova-chilli[889]: dns.c: 247: dropping dns for 
anti-dnstunnel (type 6: length 52)
Mar 31 18:32:11  coova-chilli[889]: dns.c: 247: dropping dns for 
anti-dnstunnel (type 6: length 36)

As it turns out some clients sometimes take 30 seconds just to resolve a 
single name (at least from Firefox).

I don't know what the above types correspond to but I think that there's 
a bug in the 1.0.11 code that drops the wrong types or misidentifies 
them. Why it does eventually work is beyond me...

Has anybody encountered this before? Is this a known issue?

Gunther



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