Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 505988
selinux blocks named (bind) from acting as forwarder
Last modified: 2013-04-30 19:43:42 EDT
Description of problem: SELinux blocks named from forwarding DNS queries to any of the IP's in "forwards." If "forward only" is specified, DNS lookup will fail. Workaround: Switching SELinux to permissive mode and restarting named resolves the issue. Summary: SELinux is preventing polkit-resolve- (polkit_resolve_t) "getattr" fs_t. Detailed Description: [SELinux is in permissive mode, the operation would have been denied but was permitted due to permissive mode.] SELinux denied access requested by polkit-resolve-. It is not expected that this access is required by polkit-resolve- and this access may signal an intrusion attempt. It is also possible that the specific version or configuration of the application is causing it to require additional access. Allowing Access: You can generate a local policy module to allow this access - see FAQ (http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc5/#id2961385) Or you can disable SELinux protection altogether. Disabling SELinux protection is not recommended. Please file a bug report (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi) against this package. Additional Information: Source Context system_u:system_r:polkit_resolve_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 Target Context system_u:object_r:fs_t:s0 Target Objects / [ filesystem ] Source polkit-resolve- Source Path <Unknown> Port <Unknown> Host localhost.localdomain Source RPM Packages Target RPM Packages filesystem-2.4.21-1.fc11 Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.6.12-39.fc11 Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted MLS Enabled True Enforcing Mode Permissive Plugin Name catchall Host Name localhost.localdomain Platform Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 27 17:27:08 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 Alert Count 2 First Seen Sun 14 Jun 2009 10:10:31 PM PDT Last Seen Sun 14 Jun 2009 10:10:31 PM PDT Local ID 054b4a23-495f-49c2-9cf1-f60a7a6f7b14 Line Numbers Raw Audit Messages node=localhost.localdomain type=AVC msg=audit(1245042631.92:35104): avc: denied { getattr } for pid=6595 comm="polkit-resolve-" name="/" dev=sdb5 ino=2 scontext=system_u:system_r:polkit_resolve_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:fs_t:s0 tclass=filesystem
I think I jumped the gun in reporting this. named stopped working under additional testing. I'll do further research to get to the bottom of my issue and refile if necessary. (Hopefully, it's just a configuration issue.)