Hello Sirs,
Since yesterday's afternoon, three of our ALSs spontaneously started to drop the DNS replies from external name servers.
They are all on release 2.022 and the last updated virus pattern is from 05 March 2002 (today).
These ASLs have DNS proxy configured for those internal hosts that would use the ASL internal IP address as name server. Using DNS proxy, the internal hosts can resolve names fine (this means that present problem didn't affect the functionality of DNS proxy).
But those internal hosts that try to use external name servers, cannot resolve the names and the reason seems to be what I told you before, the dropping of DNS replies from external name servers.
Please, take into account that in one case, the name server is inside the DMZ, so you should understand by "external" as all the name servers except the ASL itself.
Example of Packetfilter-violation-lifelog output:
Ext.DNS IP |sport |Ext.ASL IP |dport |prot.
200.43.188.11 |53 |200.43.161.2 |2322 |UDP
Everything was working fine with all three ASLs until yesterday's night, when this problem arouse.
Since we didn't upgrade from 2.022 yet, could it be that some bug came in through the pattern update? (just guessing...sorry if it's a stupid question).
Just FYI, though it doesn't seem logical, I tried deactivating DNS proxy feature (just in case it was interfering with the DNS queries to "external" name servers) but the problem remained.
I'd appreciate if you could take a look to this problem.
Thank you very much,
Eduardo Durrieu
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