Flood of resolve attempts overwhelms unbound on relays
Currently, dozens of relays using unbound as their DNS resolver are getting overwhelmed.
Impact on bandwidth:
2022-03-03 5.60 TiB | 5.54 TiB | 11.14 TiB | 1.13 Gbit/s
2022-03-04 2.07 TiB | 1.99 TiB | 4.06 TiB | 413.33 Mbit/s
2022-03-05 1.84 TiB | 1.76 TiB | 3.60 TiB | 366.05 Mbit/s
2022-03-06 2.01 TiB | 1.93 TiB | 3.94 TiB | 401.17 Mbit/s
2022-03-07 1.84 TiB | 1.76 TiB | 3.60 TiB | 366.05 Mbit/s
2022-03-08 3.43 TiB | 3.35 TiB | 6.78 TiB | 690.27 Mbit/s
2022-03-09 3.91 TiB | 3.87 TiB | 7.78 TiB | 1.09 Gbit/s
Geko notified me on 03/08 as you can see and the day after traffic was back as normal.
Another relay operator is facing similar issues with relays that run unbound:
https://twitter.com/unredacted_org/status/1501458345219215363
We need more information, i'm going to sample some dns requests from time to time to figure out what's causing this. Maybe it's an unbound bug, is there a way to mitigate the issue, we don't know yet. I hope to place some research into this issue.