Very odd..
So I see I needed "recurse: false":
forward_zones:
- zone: 88.99.10.in-addr.arpa
recurse: false
forwarders:
- 10.99.88.247
- 10.99.88.250
But also to keep it from locking up I had to remove "serve_rfc1918: true" which
seems odd.
Anyhow, seems to be working now.
Thanks,
Charles
> On Sep 21, 2025, at 10:58 PM, Charles Sprickman via Pdns-users
> <pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I know this is basic, but working on a small site where we just have two PDNS
> auth servers and two recursors, all on different hosts/jails and I want to be
> able to resolve a reverse/in-addr.arpa subnet.
>
> At first I thought I was just shooting myself in the foot with a bad
> "dont_query" line, so I reduced that to just this:
>
> outgoing:
> dont_query:
> - 127.0.0.0/8
>
> also made sure rfc1918 is allowed:
>
> serve_rfc1918: true (in the recursor section)
>
> Then I looked at my old pre-YAML configs from a very, very dated version we
> were running, and realized that the recursor just didn't know to look locally
> to resolve "10.99.88.0/24".
>
> So I added this:
>
> recursor:
> forward_zones:
> - zone: 88.99.10.in-addr.arpa
> forwarders:
> - 10.99.88.247
> - 10.99.88.250
>
> I confirmed I have those IPs correct and that they answer for 10.99.88.0/24.
> When I add this stanza, powerdns starts, doesn't log anything and is then
> unkillable with anything other than a "kill -9". What am I missing here?
>
> This is recursor version 5.2.4 talking to auth server 4.9.1 on FreeBSD 13.4.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charles
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