Change:
for _, extIP := range svcInfo.ExternalIPStrings() { conntrackCleanupServiceIPs.Insert(extIP) } <ins> for _, lbIP := range svcInfo.LoadBalancerIPStrings() { conntrackCleanupServiceIPs.Insert(lbIP) } </ins> nodePort := svcInfo.NodePort() if svcInfo.Protocol() == v1.ProtocolUDP && nodePort != 0 { klog.V(2).Infof("Stale %s service NodePort %v -> %d", strings.ToLower(string(svcInfo.Protocol())), svcPortName, nodePort)

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): Install tools: Terraform (with google provider) Network plugin and version (if this is a network-related bug): Others:
/sig network
According to GCP support (since we hit this on a GKE cluster) there's already a fix for this bug and it in v1.21, however I'm unable to find to link it here (hope they can provide the link shortly).
GCP support referenced as the fix for this issue, however this was already merged and released in v1.20.4 but we are running v1.20.7, so should have the fix already, so the status is unclear at this point.
thanks for the detailed report, at first sight we do clean the external ips is it possible to set kube-proxy in a log level of 2 and capture the logs from the node to correlate with the time it happends, and understand why those entries are not being deleted?
Hey we can try that, however since this is a GKE environment I'd have to check how/if we can change kube-proxy log level. My understanding of the issue is that it's not that the conntrack entries are flushed, is that they are flushed before the nat iptables rules are created, causing faulty conntrack entries to be created in the interim (since the udp packets are incoming all the time).
I'm having some miscommunication about the availability of fix in with GCP/GKE support and was hoping you could confirm that is included in v1.20.5 (as per the release notes there? ) and per the cherry-pick PR GCP Support claim that this change is incorporated in v1.21 and we should wait for v1.21 to be available in GKE.
I see the commit in 1.20.5 , this is the cherry-pick The conntrack entries are always deleted after the conntrack entries are created, there is some code that detects that a service goes stale and based on that it deletes the entries.

I think that current code detects this case, at least I know it works when the service goes from 0 to 1 endpoint, that is why the logs will be useful, we can see exactly what happens ...
Thanks for confirming I just checked and seem to be already running in log level 2: I looked back at the logs when this issue was identified and I see the following entries: This two messages and only these two repeat every time we tried to rollout the deployment. is indeed the and is the ClusterIP of the service: but every time we tried, we ended up with these stale conntrack entries I mentioned in the OP and only after deleting them would the udp packet start flowing into the "new" pod.
oh wait, by external IP you mean ?
/triage accepted /assign
here you go, having good reports on bugs make them easy to spot ;)
indeed! I apologize if I wasn't clear indeed I was referring to the LoadBalancer Service External IP. Thanks for fix!!! But now I'm a bit confused, since I understood that LoadBalancer Service External IP == LoadBalancer Ingress IP, but I see these are two separate attributes? so for example: These are the same IP, but internally they are separate attributes?
hmm I don't know how kubectl prints the information, but you can check the fields with and you could see that ExternalIPs and LoadBalancer.IngressIP are different fields, actually one is in the Status and other in the Spec
interesting, so in the output, I can only see the , there's actually no mention of here: That's why I always assumed that this is referring to the same thing/attribute/field.