Hi,
maybe just co-incidence, but I also had my recursor die yesterday on me with exactly the same error message. Restarting the recursor fixed the error:

Aug 9 01:50:46 dilbert pdns_recursor[3395]: Failed to update . records, RCODE=2 Aug 9 01:53:42 dilbert pdns_recursor[3395]: Failed to update . records, RCODE=2 Aug 9 01:56:55 dilbert pdns_recursor[3395]: Failed to update . records, RCODE=2 Aug 9 02:00:17 dilbert pdns_recursor[3395]: Failed to update . records, RCODE=2 Aug 9 02:03:41 dilbert pdns_recursor[3395]: Failed to update . records, RCODE=2 Aug 9 02:07:16 dilbert pdns_recursor[3395]: Failed to update . records, RCODE=2 Aug 9 02:10:25 dilbert pdns_recursor[3395]: Failed to update . records, RCODE=2

(that timing is GMT+8).

Did maybe something funky on the net happen yesterday?

Thanks

Justin

On 10 Aug 2007, at 5:01 AM, bert hubert wrote:

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:42:30PM +0200, thomas polnik wrote:

You may want to try without the firewall.


without iptables is perhaps a bad idea :), but I will change it to
iptables -I INPUT 1 -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT 2 -p tcp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT

This is wrong - you need to accept packets *coming* from port 53 for
answers as well.

Otherwise PowerDNS can't receive answers to the questions it is sending out!

The trick is to rely on stateful iptables filtering.

Good luck!

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