Hi,
This is all odd indeed. Espcecially since recurse: false is default for
recurosr.forward_zones and recursor.serve_rfc1918: true is default as well.
Can you provide a complete minimal config that
does not work for you?
-Otto
On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 11:34:32AM -0400, Charles Sprickman via Pdns-users
wrote:
> 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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