Hi Paul, you may want to read this bug report, I didn't had the time to try to reproduce it, though I think it has been narrowed down to something sensible, and being currently in vacation, I don't have what it takes at hand to check it properly (like a machine where I have root and that isn't a production machine ;P).
Cheers, On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 02:29:21PM +0000, Hadmut Danisch wrote: > Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 06:26:33PM +0000, Hadmut Danisch wrote: > > > >> Package: pdnsd > >> Version: 1.2.6-par-4 > >> Severity: normal > >> > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> the root name servers can usually be listed with > >> > >> dig ns . > >> > >> > >> It works with bind and other DNS servers, but does not > >> seem to work with pdnsd. At least my pdnsd returns > >> ServFail. > >> > > > > What is the configuration of your pdnsd ? I use a "recursing on root > > server" ones, and here dig NS . works. > > > > I found the problem. > > I had a server entry for the root servers and had included a > > policy = fqdn_only; > > which inhibits querying the "." domain. It is a bug in my eyes because > "." is a fully qualified domain name. > > regards > Hadmut -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
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