[Pdns-users] SOA serial and auto-serial upgrade confusion

2011-03-10 Thread Stephen Harker
Hello all, I have been running for the last 5 years or so a PowerDNS with (generic) MySQL backend set up exactly as per this page: http://doc.powerdns.com/configuring-db-connection.html#configuring-mysql and it's been working great. But now it's time to upgrade the PDNS version from 2.9.20 t

Re: [Pdns-users] how do query the recursor cache to see what's in it?

2011-03-10 Thread Alfred B. M. Cordero
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:52:02 -0800 Kenneth Marshall wrote: >It should definitely use its own cache. I did not get a result >for pop.example.com from DNS so I cannot help with that. Whether >or not a new query is made, depends upon the TTL for the record >at the very least. We would need to see ac

Re: [Pdns-users] how do query the recursor cache to see what's in it?

2011-03-10 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:44:12AM -0800, Alfred B. M. Cordero wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:25:14 -0800 Kenneth Marshall > wrote: > > > >Wow! That is not a lot of bandwidth. If you are pegging your > > It depends. > > >cap, responses may be taking a longer while to be returned and > >pdns-re

Re: [Pdns-users] how do query the recursor cache to see what's in it?

2011-03-10 Thread Alfred B. M. Cordero
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:25:14 -0800 Kenneth Marshall wrote: > >Wow! That is not a lot of bandwidth. If you are pegging your It depends. >cap, responses may be taking a longer while to be returned and >pdns-recursor is timing out. Have you tried increasing the >value for network-timeout over the

Re: [Pdns-users] how do query the recursor cache to see what's in it?

2011-03-10 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 08:49:02AM -0800, Alfred B. M. Cordero wrote: > > > >Another source of network problems could be caused by a > >firewall device that tries to be too smart and either > >delays the traffic or outright mutilates it. I do not > >know your setup, but we dealt with an issue cause

Re: [Pdns-users] how do query the recursor cache to see what's in it?

2011-03-10 Thread Alfred B. M. Cordero
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:00:11 -0800 Kenneth Marshall wrote: >On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 03:13:03PM -0800, Alfred B. M. Cordero >wrote: >> On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:30:23 -0800 Kenneth Marshall > >> wrote: >> >You can use "rec_control dump-cache filename" but the >> >recursor will not answer queries w

Re: [Pdns-users] how do query the recursor cache to see what's in it?

2011-03-10 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 03:13:03PM -0800, Alfred B. M. Cordero wrote: > On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:30:23 -0800 Kenneth Marshall > wrote: > >You can use "rec_control dump-cache filename" but the > >recursor will not answer queries while that cache is being > >dumped. > > > >Have you checked your netwo