Today a Debian Edu users showed up on #debian-edu and asked what was needed to get Debian Edu/Lenny to work with his setup. His problem was that DNS lookups did not work for addresses on the Internet.
After some debugging, we discovered that DNS lookups from the main server to any address on the Internet failed, and the cause was probably his router (topcom skyracer wbr 254g) blocking DNS requests. When using the router as a DNS server, lookups worked fine, but trying to reach a DNS server on the Internet failed. This made me remember the old bind9 setting we used to get bind to forward all DNS requests to another DNS server. It is useful on networks blocking DNS requests to all non-approved DNS servers. I tried to find a similar setting for powerdns, but as far as I can figure out this is simply not supported by powerdns. Am I wrong, or is it just impossible to get powerdns to work when the network admins block DNS lookups? Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
