[ale] news.google.com affecting BIND and Drupal?

Tue May 24 14:53:31 EDT 2011

Is anyone else seeing odd results with news.google.com using Drupal?   

My BIND 9 master and slave are getting different results.   If I go out
to other sites such as Kloth.net or iptools.com they also get different
results from each other and different from what my master and slave are
reporting.

I'm running BIND 9.3 (The RedHat version that has backported patches and
enhancements from later BIND versions in it so please don't tell me to
use a newer version.)

On doing some research I found that Google has made a couple of changes
in the past week or so affecting their news stuff.    The one that seems
like it might explain why Kloth.net, iptools.com and my server get
different answers is the May 13th introduction of "news near you"
discussed in this article:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385369,00.asp

That is aimed at mobile devices but I could see how they might also try
to make it work with static sites.   However it wouldn't explain why
both my servers coming from the same location would get different
results.   I'm thinking maybe there is something else obvious I'm
missing.

I am not caching on these servers and have bounced named on both but it
didn't help.    

Does anyone have any ideas?   Other than the fact that they're master
and slave with different IPs and setup to talk to each other the
named.conf on both hosts is the same.   They both have the same OS and
same hardware.   Also we have some Windows DNS servers in house and they
seem to be giving the same results as my slave so the master appears to
be the odd man out.

When I run "dig news.google.com" from my BIND 9 master I'm getting:

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4-P1 <<>> news.google.com

;; global options:  printcmd

;; Got answer:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 46508

;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:

;news.google.com.               IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:

news.google.com.        603615  IN      CNAME   news.l.google.com.

news.l.google.com.      300     IN      A       72.14.209.99

news.l.google.com.      300     IN      A       72.14.209.104

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:

google.com.             170523  IN      NS      ns1.google.com.

google.com.             170523  IN      NS      ns2.google.com.

google.com.             170523  IN      NS      ns3.google.com.

google.com.             170523  IN      NS      ns4.google.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:

ns3.google.com.         344424  IN      A       216.239.36.10

ns4.google.com.         343339  IN      A       216.239.38.10

;; Query time: 6 msec

;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)

;; WHEN: Tue May 24 14:17:14 2011

;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 190

Yet on my slave I get:

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4-P1 <<>> news.google.com

;; global options:  printcmd

;; Got answer:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 30872

;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 7, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:

;news.google.com.               IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:

news.google.com.        603986  IN      CNAME   news.l.google.com.

news.l.google.com.      300     IN      A       74.125.65.99

news.l.google.com.      300     IN      A       74.125.65.103

news.l.google.com.      300     IN      A       74.125.65.104

news.l.google.com.      300     IN      A       74.125.65.105

news.l.google.com.      300     IN      A       74.125.65.106

news.l.google.com.      300     IN      A       74.125.65.147

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:

google.com.             171986  IN      NS      ns4.google.com.

google.com.             171986  IN      NS      ns1.google.com.

google.com.             171986  IN      NS      ns2.google.com.

google.com.             171986  IN      NS      ns3.google.com.

;; Query time: 5 msec

;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)

;; WHEN: Tue May 24 14:18:03 2011

;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 222

P.S.  If you're on the BIND mailing list sorry for the cross-post.

Proud partner. Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

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