On 24-Jun-16 22:13, Jay Ford wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2016, Mark Andrews wrote:
>> The servers for webfarm.dr.hrsa.gov are not EDNS and DNSSEC compliant.
>> They are returning FORMERR to queries with EDNS options. Unknown
>> EDNS options are supposed to be ignored (RFC 6891).
>>
>> You can workaround this with a server clause to disable sending the
>> cookie option with a server clause.
>>
>> server <address> { request-sit no; }; // 9.10.x
>> server <address> { send-cookie no; }; // 9.11.x
>
> That did it, at least for now.
>
>> Now one could argue that FORMERR is legal under RFC 2671 (the initial
>> EDNS specification) as no options were defined and to use a option
>> you need to bump the EDNS version but the servers don't do EDNS
>> version negotiation either as they return FORMERR to a EDNS version 1
>> query rather than BADVERS. They also incorrectly copy back unknown
>> EDNS flags.
>
>> Whether this is the cause of your issue I don't know but it won't be
>> helping.
>
> The HRSA folks claim that their "site is fine". In hopes of
> disabusing them of that notion I'll have our folks who have to try to
> use the HRSA site pass along the trouble report.
>
> Thanks for the diagnosis & work-around. Excellent as always & crazy
> fast, too!
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Jay Ford, Network Engineering Group, Information Technology Services
> University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
> email: [email protected], phone: 319-335-5555
>FWIW, dnsfp identifies the DNS servers as: fingerprint (162.99.248.222, 162.99.248.222): Unlogic Eagle DNS 1.0 -- 1.0.1 [New Rules] If this is correct, the project website for Eagle DNS would appear to be: http://www.unlogic.se/projects/eagledns It seems a rather odd choice for a .gov (US Health and Human Services) owned domain...though one never knows what IT outsourcing will produce :-) Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -------------------------- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, on the matters discussed.
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