What I see from my environment, DNS resolves SLOW! I'm able to resolve from
inside and outside my network, but takes hours to update. I'm also running a
caching BIND server on the same server to see if that would speed things up,
which it's not? Also on a side note for Ntop to work correctly separating my
local and remote traffic I had to to turn off MAC addresses via
the command line -o

Cheers,
Eric


On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Gary Gatten <[email protected]> wrote:

> Caching likely has nothing to do with it.  Do you notice if only your
> "remote" networks resolve, or only your "local", or do IP from local AND
> remote networks resolve.  If one type of hosts is consistently not resolving
> it's prolly a bug is the resolution code
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Charles Gagnon [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 06:51 AM
> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Ntop] DNS Resolution half working
>
> I'm surprised there is no caching. I just can't get ntop to resolve
> the IPs and show the names. It works in only about half the IPs and I
> have no idea why.
>
> Looking at the "throughput" table, I will see some entries resolved
> properly:
>
> sys1.unixrealm.com
>
> While others show the ip:
>
> 192.168.213.42 [IP]
>
> I can't figure out why this happens. I tested and re-tested my DNS and
> these IPs resolve fine. Not sure why ntop won't handle it. Maybe it
> should cache?
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Gary Gatten <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Lol!  I have dns issues, but different than your.  If I rul more than a
> sinle resolution thread ntop will die a horrible death.
> >
> > There's no dnscache.db for some time now.  If u want caching try a
> caching resolver.  I used bind.
> >
> > What do you want to start from scratch?  There's no caching or other
> history related to resolution.
> >
> > After reviewing your problem it seems to be something with your dns
> and/or local resolver conf.  What exactly is the issue?
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Charles Gagnon [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 12:57 PM
> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [Ntop] DNS Resolution half working
> >
> > Nobody has DNS resolition issues?
> >
> > Did something replace dnsCache.db? Which of the DB files would I need
> > to restart from scratch?
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Charles Gagnon <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> These are all private servers. We use private addresses inside and NAT
> >> out to the internet. All my servers use internal DNS servers. I have
> >> /etc/resolv.conf setup as it should and nsswitch.conf says:
> >>
> >> hosts:      files nis dns
> >>
> >> So I'm thinking gethostbyaddr() should work fine. I feel like
> >> resolution was attempted at some point and results were cached and now
> >> it's not retrying. But I can't find "dnsCache.db" yet the man page
> >> still refers to it.
> >>
> >> I started with:
> >>
> >> # ntop -P /usr/local/var/ntop -u ntop -d
> >>
> >> And this is what I have:
> >>
> >> [root@sys1 ~]# ls -l /usr/local/var/ntop/
> >> total 2072
> >> -rw-r----- 1 ntop ntop  225280 Sep 27 09:20 fingerprint.db
> >> -rw-r----- 1 ntop ntop 1986634 Sep 26 12:55 macPrefix.db
> >> -rw-r----- 1 ntop ntop   12546 Oct 21  2010 ntop_pw.db
> >> -rw-r----- 1 ntop ntop   14094 Sep 27 09:20 prefsCache.db
> >> drwxrwxrwx 5 ntop ntop    4096 Oct 21  2010 rrd
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Burton Strauss III
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> 192.168.x.x/16 is the private space (RFC 1913).  So no public facing
> DNS
> >>> server would resolve those.  It would only be resolved if you were
> pointing
> >>> to your internal DNS server AND it was setup to manage the specific
> zone.
> >>> So the question is where is nslookup getting names from?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----Burton
> >>>
> >>> %QUOTE%
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: [email protected]
> >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Gagnon
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 1:12 PM
> >>> To: [email protected]
> >>> Subject: [Ntop] DNS Resolution half working
> >>>
> >>> I searched for references and I can't find what this error could be.
> >>> When listing hosts (specially in the throughput list I use a lot), some
> >>> hosts get resolved and others don't and I can't figure out why.
> >>> I've setup DNS resolution to 'All' (though I tried "local" and "Local
> >>> + Remote").
> >>>
> >>> When I look at the list, a number of items have names, others should
> the IP
> >>> with "[IP]" after. Seems very consistent, the same hosts are resolved
> and
> >>> the same show IPs between restarts.
> >>>
> >>> I was thinking of flushing out dnsCache.db but I don't that exists in
> >>> 4.1.0 (gone since 3.x maybe?).
> >>>
> >>> When I dump the hosts, I see some with names and others without:
> >>>
> >>> 192.168.206.11|0|'192.168.206.11'|'192.168.206.11'|[...]
> >>> 192.168.206.10|0|'192.168.206.10'|'hhnas01'|[...]
> >>> 192.168.206.13|0|'192.168.206.13'|'192.168.206.13'|[...]
> >>> 192.168.206.12|0|'192.168.206.12'|'192.168.206.12'|[...]
> >>> 192.168.206.15|0|'192.168.206.15'|'hhutil01'|[...]
> >>> 192.168.206.14|0|'192.168.206.14'|'192.168.206.14'|[...]
> >>>
> >>> Any ideas? Any other "cache" I can get rid of. Testing with nslookup
> yields
> >>> a name for all those IPs.
> >>>
> >>> --
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> >>> charlesg at unixrealm.com
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