Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. run curl command to reach the endpoint from inside the pod in a loop
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Actual results:

curl fails sometimes

Expected results:

curl should pass all the time

Additional info:

customer is having intermittent pod egress connectivity issues in an OCP 3.11 with egress router in a proxied environment.

Use Case:  Application pod connects to an external endpoint URL (via proxy) to upload files.

Proxy has multiple interfaces and it is defined as  148.171.179.249 in the corporate DNS,  and it is defined as   192.168.219.120 in /etc/hosts in the app pod.  App pod needs to connect to proxy @ 192.168.219.120, to establish a session with endpoint URL,  otherwise, the endpoint URL blocks the connection.  

App pod /etc/nsswitch.conf has  "hosts:  files dns"

Issue:  10% of app pod requests to the endpoint URL are failing

Observations:

1. TCP dump shows that sometimes the DNS resolution for the proxy is happening upstream (as if local /etc/hosts resolution is failing) which results in pod connecting to 148.171.179.249 and subsequently fails to connect with endpoint URL.

2.  Strace of curl in the pod shows that /etc/hosts is not red the same way every time.  Some times the contents of the /etc/hosts do not have the proxy line, which is resulting in DNS resolution, and subsequent failures.

3. No resolution related errors are seen in the nodes SOS report.



sosreport, tcpdump and strace outputs are available in the case