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Re: What is DNS Linkage with Informix TCP service/

Posted By: Fernando Nunes
Date: Wednesday, 20 June 2012, at 12:43 p.m.

In Response To: Re: What is DNS Linkage with Informix TCP service/ (OMER KHAN)

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 5:13 PM, OMER KHAN <oskhan@i2cinc.com> wrote:

> Thanks fernando for the answers.
>
> Actually, I have further discussed the case with my system admin and here
> are
> some of the additional information which you might need:
>
> Actually, we uses the external DNS servers (/etc/resolve) and there was an
> internet outage due to which DB servers were unable to connect to the DNS
> servers.
> And that internet outage recovered after 45 minutes and DB servers were
> able
> to connect to DNS.
>
> But after above two incidents, our DB instance was not able to make new tcp
> connections? why?
>

Impossible to tell... Some debugging would need to take place while the
problem was happening.
More below...

> We also checked that we were able to ssh our DB servers successfully.
>

ssh may work differently....

> Although, you made it clear in your earlier answer that if there is a
> change
> in the DNS then we have to restart Informix instance, but in our case DNS
> servers were temporary unavailability (we did not make any changes in
> /etc/resolv.conf & /etc/nsswitch.conf) and after recovery of DNS, do we
> still
> require restart?
>

No. Which is contrary to your experience...

Additionally, as we are running multiple instance but we faced this issue on
> only one instance? And we only restarted one of the instances to fix the
> issue?
>
> Why our other instances were not impacted? Any idea?
>

Without very specific debugging I can only speculate. A few years ago I had
a situation like you described and I was fortunate (and stuburn enough) to
find out what happened. But this was a very strange and difficult to happen
elsewhere situation:

1- the MSC VP makes the DNS requests by calling gethostbyaddr(). This works
with UDP protocol and it opens a socket with a port number belonging to a
range that is configurable
2- The customer was using a third party tool (tibco) that uses UDP
broadcasts to find out services. These broadcasts are sent to a specific
port(s)
3- Due to misconfiguration, the port used by tibco was inside the interval
of ports configured to be used by client processes when they request a UDB
socket
4- the OS function gethostbyaddr() sent a request to a DNS server that was
down. But it opened the port ro receive the answers. When this port matched
the tibco port, the function would just sit there reading the broadcast
data (not DNS traffic). Since the traffic never stop arriving the function
would never return (the function does not have a timeout, so it kept read()
garbage)
5- Since they used only 1 MSCVP they could not do anymore connections
6- I was able to confirm all this, by stopping the network traffic on that
port. After a couple of seconds, the "hanged" instance returned to live!

So, I'm not saying that this happened to you. I'd say it's not likely. What
I'm saying is that this is a complex matter, that most customers (and even
IBM) don't usually pay enough attention to. To give you an answer I'd need
a lot of data collecting while the issue was happening.

To be a bit more positive, what can I suggest if this happens again:
1- Try to launch another MSCVP (onmode -p +1 msc) when you're sure the DNS
are ok
2- Make sure that in your /etc/nsswitch.conf you configure the system to
access the /etc/host file first. This could allow you to populate the file
with client IP addresses if you sense problems
3- You have strange errors in the online.log. I suspect these has to do
with the listener requests queuing up. This can cause some issues
(specially on Solaris if using TLI). You could try to restart the
listeners...

> Look forward for your response. Thanks.
>

Not very helpful, but I think it's impossible to answer without data
collected during the issue. This should include strace/truss outputs from
the MSCVP process.
Regards.

--
Fernando Nunes
Portugal

http://informix-technology.blogspot.com
My email works... but I don't check it frequently...

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