Another thing to consider, especially if you are playing wild games routing
through tunnels and such, is to verify the server has a route back to the
client. If something in the LAN can reach it, like the first dump, but
off-net gets no response, like the second, that’s a classic cause.

On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM Timothe Litt via bind-users <
bind-users@lists.isc.org> wrote:

> On 24-Feb-25 17:54, Peter 'PMc' Much wrote:
>
> tcpdump was friendly enough to tell me I should use -vv option,
> only I didn't read that at first.
> Then it clearly shows that these packets have invalid checksums. :(
>
> And that is apparently reason enough to just drop them without
> notice.
>
> Now how they aquire broken checksums, and why they start to
> do so two days ago (because I find some successful XFR in the log,
> until Feb-22), that is another story.
>
> A couple of hints:
>
> The bad checksums may be a false lead.  If you have a network interface
> that off-loads checksum computation, the checksum (valid or invalid) may
> not appear in the user/trace buffer.  (Depends on the interface & driver.)
>
> If your NAT is changing IP addresses, it may not recompute the checksum
> (for the same reason - you can't count on it being valid in the buffer).
>
> You can mark packets with IPtables to make tracking/logging easier.
>
>
> Timothe Litt
> ACM Distinguished Engineer
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