Network Error – How to Fix ‘(network unreachable)’ Error in Server Logs

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I'm getting lots of network unreachable lines in my Centos' messages log file. They seem they can't resolve to certain addresses which I do not have any ideas why my server has to resolve to them in the first place. Could anyone let me know the origin of such error? Am I under an attack?

Oct 23 11:39:03 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving './DNSKEY/IN': 2001:503:ba3e::2:30#53
Oct 23 11:39:03 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving './NS/IN': 2001:503:ba3e::2:30#53
Oct 23 11:39:03 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'dlv.isc.org/DNSKEY/IN': 2001:500:48::1#53
Oct 23 11:39:03 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'dlv.isc.org/DNSKEY/IN': 2001:4f8:0:2::19#53
Oct 23 11:39:03 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'ns.isc.afilias-nst.info/A/IN': 2001:500:2f::f#53
Oct 23 11:39:03 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'ns.isc.afilias-nst.info/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:2f::f#53
Oct 23 11:39:03 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'ns.isc.afilias-nst.info/A/IN': 2001:500:1::803f:235#53
Oct 23 11:39:03 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'ns.isc.afilias-nst.info/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:1::803f:235#53
Oct 23 11:39:03 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'ns.isc.afilias-nst.info/A/IN': 2001:503:c27::2:30#53
Oct 23 11:39:03 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'ns.isc.afilias-nst.info/AAAA/IN': 2001:503:c27::2:30#53
Oct 23 11:39:03 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'ns.isc.afilias-nst.info/A/IN': 2001:500:1a::1#53
Oct 23 11:39:03 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'dlv.isc.org/DNSKEY/IN': 2001:4f8:0:2::20#53
Oct 23 11:39:03 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'dlv.isc.org/DNSKEY/IN': 2001:500:60::29#53
Oct 23 11:39:03 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'ns1.isc.ultradns.net/A/IN': 2001:7fd::1#53
Oct 23 11:39:03 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'ns1.isc.ultradns.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:7fd::1#53
Oct 23 11:39:04 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'ns2.isc.ultradns.net/A/IN': 2610:a1:1014::e8#53
Oct 23 11:39:04 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'pdns196.ultradns.org/A/IN': 2001:500:e::1#53
Oct 23 11:39:04 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'pdns196.ultradns.org/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:e::1#53
Oct 23 11:39:04 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'pdns196.ultradns.org/A/IN': 2001:500:40::1#53
Oct 23 11:39:04 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'pdns196.ultradns.org/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:40::1#53
Oct 23 11:39:04 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'pdns196.ultradns.org/AAAA/IN': 2001:502:4612::e8#53
Oct 23 11:39:04 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'pdns196.ultradns.info/AAAA/IN': 2610:a1:1016::e8#53
Oct 23 11:39:04 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'pdns196.ultradns.info/A/IN': 2610:a1:1016::e8#53
Oct 23 11:39:04 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'pdns196.ultradns.co.uk/AAAA/IN': 2610:a1:1017::e8#53
Oct 23 11:39:04 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'pdns196.ultradns.biz/A/IN': 2610:a1:1015::e8#53
Oct 23 11:39:04 server named[1585]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'pdns196.ultradns.com/AAAA/IN': 2001:502:f3ff::e8#53
Oct 23 11:39:04 server named[1585]: client 93.113.174.225#46368: query (cache) 'adobe.com/A/IN' denied
Oct 23 11:39:04 server named[1585]: client 93.113.174.225#23736: query (cache) 'adobe.com/A/IN' denied
Oct 23 11:39:04 server lfd[1196]: SYSLOG check [Lga6AZUNsgZGaVQX]

By the way, my named.conf's options are as below if they are of any help:

options {
    //listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; };
        //listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; };
        directory   "/var/named";
        dump-file   "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
        statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
        memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt";
        //allow-query     { localhost; };
        allow-recursion { localnets; };

        dnssec-enable yes;
        dnssec-validation yes;
        dnssec-lookaside auto;

        /* Path to ISC DLV key */
        bindkeys-file "/etc/named.iscdlv.key";

        managed-keys-directory "/var/named/dynamic";
};

Please help!

Best Answer

All of the addresses are IPv6. Seems an IPv6 issue, you probably have no IPv6 networking configured. Disable IPv6 suport in Bind:

Edit /etc/sysconfig/named and set:

OPTIONS="-4"

Then restart bind:

service named restart

(from http://crashmag.net/disable-ipv6-lookups-with-bind-on-rhel-or-centos)

Are you under attack? I don't think you've been compromised. Those messages can be normal depending on what services you are running (anyhow, any server is always under some attempt of attack, people scans the internet trying exploits on every server).

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