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CONTAP-84776: Excessive external DNS reverse lookups for cluster LIF IPs

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Issue

  • The packet trace shows a burst of PTR requests generated by node management LIF to reverse lookup Cluster LIF's IP (11.22.33.44):
    1 <node management IP> 50445     <DNS IP>               domain    DNS   Standard query 0xdf71 PTR 44.33.22.11.in-addr.arpa
    2 <DNS IP>             domain    <node management IP>    50445    DNS   Standard query response 0xdf71 No such name PTR 44.33.22.11.in-addr.arpa SOA localhost

  • Along with the DNS storm, the DNS server may stop answering questions from the Cluster Vserver leading to the dns.server.timed.out errors
    mgwd: dns.server.timed.out:error]: DNS server 111.111.111.11 did not respond to vserver = SVM within timeout interval. 
    mgwd: dns.server.timed.out:error]: DNS server 111.111.111.12 did not respond to vserver = SVM within timeout interval. 

  • Audit logs contain REST requests for /api/private/cli/network/connections/active where remote_host field is requested
    Wed Dec 06 2023 20:00:21 +09:00 [kern_audit:info:2412]xxx:: admin-vserver: http :: xx.xx.xx.xx:47068 :: admin-vserver:admin ::
    GET /api/private/cli/network/connections/active?return_records=true&fields=service,blocks_lb,lif_name,local_address,node,proto,remote_host,cid,local_port,lru,
    remote_ip,vserver :: Pending
    ......
    Wed Dec 06 2023 20:00:27 +09:00 [kern_audit:info:2412]xxx:: admin-vserver: http :: xx.xx.xx.xx:47068 :: admin-vserver:admin ::
    GET /api/private/cli/network/connections/active?return_records=true&fields=service,blocks_lb,lif_name,local_address,node,proto,remote_host,cid,local_port,lru,
    remote_ip,vserver :: Success:

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