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Testing Cogent DNS On A Cogent Line

Jan 19, 2007

I am having a strange DNS issue on a Cogent circuit using Cogent DNS servers at 66.28.0.45 and 66.28.0.61. What is happening is that some domain requests will timeout the first try. Then subsequent tries will be quick with no timeouts.

I am having a very hard time getting through to Cogent that there might be an issue somewhere and I was wondering if anyone on a Cogent line using the same Cogent DNS servers could also do a test for me to and see if you can reproduce any timeouts.

How I am testing:
- Open nslookup (in linux use: nslookup -timeout=2, windows defaults to 2 seconds)
- Picking a random domain name (favorite cereal.com, movie title.com, brand name.com, random word.com)
- Repeating test for same domain if timeout occurs to see the next query resolve instantly

Here is an example of what Is happening for me:
Code:
[eger@womp ~]# nslookup -timeout=2
> superman.com
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> superman.com
Server: 66.28.0.45
Address: 66.28.0.45#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: superman.com
Address: 64.12.47.7
> napaautoparts.com
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> napaautoparts.com
Server: 66.28.0.45
Address: 66.28.0.45#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: napaautoparts.com
Address: 208.254.241.70
>

I picked 2 random domains (that were likely not cached at the name server) and they both timeout the first try. Anyone else able to replicate this?

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Warning! SMART Attribute Thresholds Structure error: invalid SMART checksum.
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
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0 Unknown_Attribute <== Threshold Page | INCONSISTENT IDENTITIES IN THE DATA
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255 Unknown_Attribute <== Threshold Page | INCONSISTENT IDENTITIES IN THE DATA
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255 Unknown_Attribute 0xffff 255 255 255 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 281474976710655
255 Unknown_Attribute 0xffff 255 255 255 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 281474976710655
255 Unknown_Attribute 0xffff 255 255 255 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 281474976710655
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Quote:

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Quote:

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The 2 36.4GB 15k Ultra320 drives are running in RAID 1. This is the array that I am performing these tests on, -not- the 73.5GB drives.

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The following tsets

I know hdparm is not really meant for running tests on SCSI disks, however here is the output:

Code:
# hdparm -tT /dev/cciss/c0d1

/dev/cciss/c0d1:
Timing cached reads: 1732 MB in 2.00 seconds = 865.91 MB/sec
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Timing buffered disk reads: 320 MB in 3.01 seconds = 106.45 MB/sec
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
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Code:
File size set to 4096 KB
Command line used: /opt/iozone/bin/iozone -s 4096
Output is in Kbytes/sec
Time Resolution = 0.000001 seconds.
Processor cache size set to 1024 Kbytes.
Processor cache line size set to 32 bytes.
File stride size set to 17 * record size.
random random bkwd record stride
KB reclen write rewrite read reread read write read rewrite read fwrite frewrite fread freread
4096 4 188852 523178 658943 688853 610887 484275 572466 539010 580498 182914 471075 644937 671916
Then, just for the heck of it, I ran the tests on my little home Dell server with a ~80GB 7.2k RPM 1.5GB/s SATA drive:

Code:
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 1680 MB in 2.00 seconds = 839.29 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 136 MB in 3.02 seconds = 45.08 MB/sec

Code:
File size set to 4096 KB
Command line used: ./iozone -s 4096
Output is in Kbytes/sec
Time Resolution = 0.000001 seconds.
Processor cache size set to 1024 Kbytes.
Processor cache line size set to 32 bytes.
File stride size set to 17 * record size.
random random bkwd record stride
KB reclen write rewrite read reread read write read rewrite read fwrite frewrite fread freread
4096 4 152972 1135245 1358510 2132128 1163636 1103448 1184499 1829350 1588205 490774 1006882 1378196 2104830
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NOTE: The batteries on my Smart Array 6402 controller are DEAD and need to be replaced, they will not charge. Since they are dead, the cache (which is 128MB) will not enable itself. If this cache were enabled, would I experience much different results from the tests?

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1 64.214.16.65 (64.214.16.65) 0.761 ms 0.608 ms
2 so0-0-0-2488M.ar2.TPA1.gblx.net (67.17.66.165) 5.690 ms 5.695 ms
3 WBS-CONNECT-LLC.ae0.409.ar2.TPA1.gblx.net (64.214.147.222) 5.731 ms 5.880 ms
4 69.46.31.106 (69.46.31.106) 7.442 ms 6.667 ms
5 node1.sarorahosting.com (96.31.73.2) 15.734 ms 15.993 ms
6 96.31.73.xxx (96.31.73.xxx) 15.861 ms 15.795 ms

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traceroute to 64.214.16.65 (64.214.16.65), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 node1.sarorahosting.com (96.31.73.2) 0.072 ms 0.035 ms 0.008 ms
2 69.46.31.105 (69.46.31.105) 0.731 ms 0.863 ms 1.003 ms
3 gi0-6.na21.b001841-0.tpa01.atlas.cogentco.com (38.99.204.33) 1.147 ms 1.142 ms 1.428 ms
4 gi4-1.core01.tpa01.atlas.cogentco.com (38.20.33.89) 0.818 ms 0.814 ms 0.807 ms
5 po2-0.core01.mco01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.27.90) 148.004 ms * *
6 po5-0.core01.jax01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.146) 5.847 ms 5.839 ms 5.872 ms
7 po5-0.core01.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.197) 11.953 ms 23.819 ms 23.870 ms
8 te3-3.ccr01.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.38) 11.721 ms 11.752 ms 11.787 ms
9 te8-2.mpd01.atl04.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.174) 11.962 ms 11.921 ms 11.987 ms
10 ge4-1-0-390-1000M.ar4.ATL1.gblx.net (64.208.110.97) 12.252 ms 12.359 ms 12.444 ms
11 64.214.16.65 (64.214.16.65) 16.026 ms 16.061 ms 16.594 ms

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