[Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor 3.3-RC3 released

2010-09-20 Thread bert hubert
Dear PowerDNS community, PowerDNS Recursor 3.3 Release Candidate 3 is now available! It is in wide production use already, but we'd like everyone to take a good look at it before we release it as 3.3-final. If nothing crops up, RC3 will be the exact same as the 3.3 release. RC1 had some compilat

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns-recursor-3.3rc2 cache is growing slow

2010-09-20 Thread bert hubert
From: pdns-users-boun...@mailman.powerdns.com [mailto:pdns-users- > > boun...@mailman.powerdns.com] On Behalf Of Detlef Peeters > > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 2:46 AM > > To: bert hubert > > Cc: Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com > > Subject: Re: [Pdns-users] pdns-

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns-recursor-3.3rc2 cache is growing slow

2010-09-20 Thread bert hubert
Odd - can you paste some 'stats:' lines from the log files? stats: 4331362754 questions, 1003788 cache entries, 100987 negative entries, 27% cache hits stats: throttle map: 2752, ns speeds: 76672 stats: outpacket/query ratio 3205%, 2% throttled, 0 no-delegation drops stats: 263614 outgoing

Re: [Pdns-users] Round Robin Record Resolution Problems with pdns recursor 3.2

2010-09-19 Thread bert hubert
Hi Thomas, Try disable-packetcache, this will allow the shuffling logic to act. The shuffling within the PowerDNS Recursor is random, and not deterministic, though. Good luck! On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 07:51:01AM +0200, Thomas Mieslinger wrote: > Hi, > > we've set up some large Round Robin Recor

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns recursor 3.2 cname resolution phenomenon

2010-09-19 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 07:32:51AM +0200, Thomas Mieslinger wrote: > we're using pdns recursor for out company internal name resolution. > We have some strange setups to support that can't easily be removed. > > In some of our offical Zones are CNAMEs. The A records to these > Names are in our int

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns-recursor-3.3rc2 our root expired messages

2010-09-16 Thread bert hubert
Found it & solved in http://wiki.powerdns.com/trac/changeset/1716 This issue is harmless, but it is good to have it solved for the 'real' release. Thanks for the vigilance! Bert On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 01:39:11PM +0200, bert hubert wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns-recursor-3.3rc2 our root expired messages

2010-09-15 Thread bert hubert
ecursor[1290]: zvngjzei.net.RT-G32.: our root > > expired, repriming from hints and retrying > > > > Process was started _exactly_ a day before the messages appeared: > > > > Sep 11 23:17:15 nsc pdns_recursor[1290]: Done priming cache with root hints > > &g

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns-recursor-3.3rc2 our root expired messages

2010-09-15 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 01:37:30PM +0200, Detlef Peeters wrote: > pdns_recursor[32068]: objects-test.deviantart.com.edgesuite.net.: > our root expired, repriming from hints and retrying > pdns_recursor[32068]: s.de.net.: our root expired, repriming from > hints and retrying Hi Detlef, Can you lis

[Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor 3.3-RC2 released!

2010-09-12 Thread bert hubert
Dear PowerDNS community, PowerDNS Recursor 3.3 Release Candidate 2 is now available! It is in wide production use already, but we'd like everyone to take a good look at it before we release it as 3.3-final. If nothing crops up, RC2 will be the exact same as the 3.3 release. RC1 had some compilat

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS (2.9.22) crash with signal 8 (floating point exception)

2010-09-11 Thread bert hubert
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 06:43:08PM +0700, Dmitriy Lyfar wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using pdns with my own backend. Previous version I've used was 2.9.21 > (from centos repo) and my backend works fine. But we decided to > move to last version (pdns-static, 2.9.22, x86_64) and it can't even run > with my

[Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor 3.3-RC1 released!

2010-09-11 Thread bert hubert
Dear PowerDNS community, PowerDNS Recursor 3.3 Release Candidate 1 is now available! It is in wide production use already, but we'd like everyone to take a good look at it before we release it as 3.3-final. If nothing crops up, RC1 will be the exact same as the 3.3 release. Tar, RPM & Deb for 32

Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS-recursor-3.2 crashed under Solaris 10 (x86)

2010-09-10 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:20:07AM +0200, Christian Kuehn wrote: > Hi, > > today I installed the Recursor 3.2 in a new Solaris 10 x86 and the > process crashed immediately: Hi Christian, Sadly this is well known - see http://mailman.powerdns.com/pipermail/pdns-users/2010-August/006956.html Pow

Re: [Pdns-users] tcp listener issue - hopefully fixed

2010-09-09 Thread bert hubert
e packages that will be binary identical to the real 3.3 > once you 'bless' them as having solved your issue. This would save you an > upgrade. > > Would this work for you? > > Bert. > > Sent from my phone. > > - Reply message - > From: "Simon

Re: [Pdns-users] Successful, yet incomplete AXFR to BIND9 slave

2010-09-08 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 12:10:53AM +0300, Nikolaos Milas wrote: > Indeed, I have confirmed that pdns does not send a complete set of > records during AXFR, by executing: > ># dig example.com AXFR @dns.example.com > > where dns.example.com is the pdns/ldap server. The output is exactly > the

Re: [Pdns-users] tcp listener issue - hopefully fixed

2010-09-08 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 09:17:01PM +, Brad Dameron wrote: > > The release process for 3.3 can now start - only 1 feature request left > > to > > finish. > > Good to hear Bert. I'll run it through the ringer on Monday and see if we can > reproduce the problem. Cross fingers that it is fixed.

Re: [Pdns-users] dns queries timeout on secondary IPs

2010-09-08 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 08:44:01PM +0300, George wrote: > Here are the outputs: > [r...@webprod02 ~]# grep local-address /etc/pdns/pdns.conf > # local-address Local IP addresses to which we bind > local-address=0.0.0.0 (...) > pdns[6269]: It is advised to bind to explicit addresses with the > --loc

Re: [Pdns-users] dns queries timeout on secondary IPs

2010-09-08 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 08:31:45PM +0300, George wrote: > I have CentOS 5.5 and powerdns 2.9.21 set up as a slave server. My > problem is that pdns does not reply to queries that come from outside > on any secondary IP . Here's the full story: Can you run: grep local-address /etc/powerdns/pdns.con

[Pdns-users] Some notes for Solaris 10 on x86 users of the PowerDNS Recursor

2010-08-30 Thread bert hubert
Hi, This message is for everyone using the PowerDNS Recursor with Solaris 10 on x86 (non-UltraSPARC) hardware. It turns out that Solaris 10 on x86 has some issues standing in the way of high performance for the PowerDNS Recursor. With some care, good results can be achieved however. If you need

Re: [Pdns-users] tcp listener issue - hopefully fixed

2010-08-29 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 04:56:14PM +0200, bert hubert wrote: > We've fixed yet another bug that might be causing the issue, and we are > currently testing that. > > This drop can be found on > http://svn.powerdns.com/snapshots/pdns-recursor-3.3-pre.tar.bz2 Our testing sh

Re: [Pdns-users] tcp listener issue - hopefully fixed

2010-08-29 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:37:42AM +0100, Simon Bedford wrote: > Just returned from annual leave to this welcome news, has anyone had > a chance to try it as yet and investigate whether the bug still > manifests? And does it no longer happen when running Brad's test > script? Simon, Sadly we foun

Re: [Pdns-users] recursor resolv ERROR

2010-08-26 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 01:20:52PM +0400, Dmitry Rybin wrote: > $ dig +short my.smsfeedback.ru @78.108.89.252 > click.smsbliss.ru. > > $ dig +short click.smsbliss.ru @ns1.nameself.com > 79.125.121.14 > > All fine, bind resolves this domain, unbound too, but pdns-recursor - not. It is broken. The

Re: [Pdns-users] recursor resolv ERROR

2010-08-26 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:48:21AM +0400, Dmitry Rybin wrote: > Pdns-recursor cann't resolv my.smsfeedback.ru and some other zones: Hi Dmitry, $ dig my.smsfeedback.ru @78.108.89.252 This is the ns2.majordomo.ru, and it returns an NXDOMAIN for my.smsfeedback.ru, which means 'no such domain'. I s

Re: [Pdns-users] Why NS records?

2010-08-25 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:38:38PM +0200, Yves Goergen wrote: > Hi, > > what is it good for to add NS records to a domain in an authoritative > nameserver? I mean when somebody has already come here, they already This is the way the DNS works. DNS is actually quite a bit more complicated than it

Re: [Pdns-users] MySQL table columns

2010-08-12 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 08:58:11AM +0200, Yves Goergen wrote: > On 12.08.2010 08:27 CE(S)T, bert hubert wrote: > > There is a description the other way around, > > http://doc.powerdns.com/types.html > > > > This describes for each record type what fields are used. >

Re: [Pdns-users] MySQL backend and notify

2010-08-12 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 08:55:17AM +0200, Yves Goergen wrote: > On 12.08.2010 08:28 CE(S)T, bert hubert wrote: > > If configured with 'master' in the configuration, it will periodically > > retrieve a list of all SOA serial numbers, and determine which ones changed. &g

Re: [Pdns-users] MySQL backend and notify

2010-08-11 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:35:43PM +0200, Yves Goergen wrote: > I'm currently setting up my first PowerDNS server. It shall act as > master for another DNS server. I'm going to use the gmysql backend. How > will the pdns server know when I have changed the records in the > database to send out noti

Re: [Pdns-users] MySQL table columns

2010-08-11 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:39:01PM +0200, Yves Goergen wrote: > Second question: Is there an overview available that describes what each > of the database table columns is good for? There's example data but it > doesn't use all columns. Some columns are used for internal purposes > I've read, but I

Re: [Pdns-users] crashes in bind backend on rediscover

2010-08-11 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 02:24:04PM +0100, Richard Poole wrote: > We're seeing crashes in powerdns 2.9.22 when calling "pdns_control > rediscover". We have a cron job that does this, currently twice an hour, > and on average about once a day it results in a crash, looking like this > in /var/log/mes

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible bug observed in PowerDNS Recursor 3.2.1

2010-08-09 Thread bert hubert
owerdns.com/snapshots/pdns-recursor-3.3-pre.tar.bz2 Although the 'real' 3.3 is around the corner - hopefully, please see the previous message on the list. Kind regards, Bert Hubert ___ Pdns-users mailing list Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users

[Pdns-users] tcp listener issue - hopefully fixed

2010-08-09 Thread bert hubert
l Message- > From: pdns-users-boun...@mailman.powerdns.com > [mailto:pdns-users-boun...@mailman.powerdns.com] On Behalf Of bert hubert > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 9:01 AM > To: Mike > Cc: Brad Dameron; pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com > Subject: Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener is

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible bug observed in PowerDNS Recursor 3.2.1

2010-08-05 Thread bert hubert
Briefly diving into this: On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:12:54AM -0400, Dave Sparro wrote: > I see this all the time on BIND resolvers. The keys to the situation are: > > * Domain's old NS records have a relatively long TTL (from old auth. > servers) > * Domain owner changes auth. servers with regis

Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS Timing Out

2010-07-27 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 04:49:19PM -0700, Brandon Lee wrote: > Therefore, we turned on logging by setting the log level to 6 in the > pdns.conf > file and only on the master server we saw hundreds of queries like below > being > logged whereas on the slave server this was not happening.  Not su

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener issue

2010-07-27 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 02:24:03PM +0100, Simon Bedford wrote: > I then just upgraded the version to our patched version of 3.2 but > without specifying our usual 4 threads and the response times went > up on the graphing straight away, upping the number of threads makes > no difference and the res

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener issue

2010-07-06 Thread bert hubert
The issue has now been reproduced on one of the PowerDNS servers, thanks to Brad and Christian. However, it is quite some work to make it happen and we've not yet been able to make sense of *why* it is happening. We'll keep you posted. Once this is solved, 3.3 will be released. Bert On

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener issue

2010-06-28 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:55:07PM -0700, Brad Dameron wrote: > > -Original Message- > > > > So far, Josh & Simon are the only ones reporting this issue though, so > > something must be going on. What Laurent Papier reported has been > fixed > > already (although he may not know it yet ;-)

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener issue

2010-06-28 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 01:13:16PM +0200, Ton van Rosmalen wrote: > > This is the last thing we can come up with that might explain the issue you > > are seeing. This fix is necessary, but unlikely to be the cause of the > > problems you are seeing. > I sent a message about a similar issue seen usi

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener issue

2010-06-28 Thread bert hubert
t; [pdns-users-boun...@mailman.powerdns.com] On Behalf Of bert hubert > [bert.hub...@netherlabs.nl] > Sent: 23 June 2010 12:47 > To: Simon Bedford > Cc: pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com > Subject: Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener issue > > Simon, > > Can you grep y

Re: [Pdns-users] strange resolution problem

2010-06-25 Thread bert hubert
a good idea to make a nameserver program around a bug of someone else. In this case, it is nice that it works in BIND. If you measure, you find that BIND and PowerDNS resolve about the same amount of domains correctly. There will be some domains that work well in PowerDNS and not in BIND and the

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener issue

2010-06-23 Thread bert hubert
answer sent to" ? Bert > > Ta, > Josh > > From: pdns-users-boun...@mailman.powerdns.com > [pdns-users-boun...@mailman.powerdns.com] On Behalf Of bert hubert > [bert.hub...@netherlabs.nl] > Sent: 23 June 2010 12:47 > To: S

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener issue

2010-06-23 Thread bert hubert
my beliefs then :) Will take another good look at how else this > could happen. The patch we made at least solves A bug just not your bug. > > Sent from my phone. > > - Reply message - > From: "Simon Bedford" > Date: Tue, Jun 22, 2010 09:44 > Sub

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener issue

2010-06-21 Thread bert hubert
Simon, the solution to your issue is almost certainly in http://wiki.powerdns.com/trac/changeset/1640 Even though you do not see the log messages, I'm pretty sure this is it. Bert ___ Pdns-users mailing list Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com http

[Pdns-users] PowerDNSSEC, PowerDNS @ ICANN38

2010-06-20 Thread bert hubert
Hi everybody, I'll be part of the 'DNSSEC Workgroup' over at ICANN in Brussels this coming week. There, I will present 'PowerDNSSEC' plus our vision of DNSSEC on the resolver side of large ISPs. More details can be found on http://brussels38.icann.org/node/12491 and you can even join in virtually

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener issue

2010-06-18 Thread bert hubert
n the problem. Thanks! On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 04:16:50PM +0200, bert hubert wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 03:14:39PM +0100, Simon Bedford wrote: > > Bert, its now climbing and not seeming to close any clients on both > > servers now, although one is much worse than the other,

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener issue

2010-06-17 Thread bert hubert
-w tcpdns port 53 and tcp For a while (few hours) And then send me the output of: # tcpdump -n -r tcpdns You can obfuscate IP addresses, as long as I can see patterns that would be great. Thanks! > > Simon > > Simon Bedford wrote: > >Please see answers below :- > >

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener issue

2010-06-16 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:10:29AM +0100, Simon Bedford wrote: > I have been running the 'get tcp-clients' every 5 mins in cron on > both servers, one is very low <10 and fluctuates, the other is just > growing and growing and is currently at 55, hope this info is of > value for debug. Is there an

Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS Recursor and reverse lookup

2010-06-16 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:34:30AM +0200, Uroš Gruber wrote: > Hi, > > here is result from one of IP Try adding -x to the command line. From the 'dig' manpage: 'The default query type is "A", unless the -x option is supplied to indicate a reverse lookup.' > [r...@host1 ~]#dig @91.185.194.202

Re: [Pdns-users] Running pdns-recursor without internet access

2010-06-16 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:56:01AM +0200, Wouter van Bommel wrote: > Since a slave zone is not an option for the external domain I tried to > setup the pdns-recursor. This works nice. But it does give me error > regarding 'not being able to update . zone'. Which is explainable since > there is

Re: [Pdns-users] IPv4/IPv6 nameserver preference by recursor?

2010-06-16 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 05:10:11PM -0600, Darren Gamble wrote: > We just wanted to get some information on how the recursor behaves when > presented with a NS record set containing both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses, > and/or if a NS record name has both A and records. > > If there a preference by

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener issue

2010-06-15 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 02:23:04PM +0100, Simon Bedford wrote: > >It contains some other exciting stuff too, and it appears to be stable for > >production use. > I have now built a static package and installed to 2 of the 8 > servers after testing in isolation, they appear to be running fine > and

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener issue

2010-06-13 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 04:08:17PM +0100, Simon Bedford wrote: > > Simon, > > > > Could you apply this patch: > > http://wiki.powerdns.com/trac/changeset/1623 > > > > And periodically run 'rec_control get tcp-clients' ? > > Hi Bert, I have just returned from annual leave and began to look in

Re: [Pdns-users] Can't start powerdns web on port 80 when running pdns not as root

2010-06-09 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 08:32:00AM +0200, Thomas Mieslinger wrote: > when I set the Webseverport to 80 and run powerdns as user a non root user > then the powerdns fails to start with the message "permisson denied". > Powerdns seems to drop the root priviledges too early. > > Is someone willing

Re: [Pdns-users] Slave zone just won't refresh....

2010-06-09 Thread bert hubert
Garry, "2.6.1 WKS WKS records are deprecated in [RFC 1123]. They serve no known useful function, except internally among LISP machines" Normally we'd whip up an implementation just to have the issue go away, but it is a pretty weird record type too, containing a bitmap of protocols. Unknown reco

Re: [Pdns-users] multithreaded epoll_wait in PDNS

2010-06-06 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 06:40:18PM +0200, Christof Meerwald wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 16:12:45 -0500, Naked Short-Selling wrote: > > I read your post regarding multithreaded epoll_wait behavior on lkml a > > couple of months ago: > > " > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/3/441 > > " > > My understan

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener issue

2010-05-30 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:12:29AM +0100, Simon Bedford wrote: > This has happened a further twice in the last week, output sent off > list, please let me know if you need any further information. Simon, Could you apply this patch: http://wiki.powerdns.com/trac/changeset/1623 And periodically

Re: [Pdns-users] [recursor] configure could be more user-friendly

2010-05-26 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:15:34PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 07:57:13PM +0200, > bert hubert wrote > a message of 85 lines which said: > > > The immediate reason that the pdns-recursor did not have full auto*, > > and is unlikely

Re: [Pdns-users] Power DNS 2.9.22 compile error while running 'make' command

2010-05-26 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:41:09AM +1200, Michael wrote: > On Slackware 13.0 while running Make: > > I have successfully configured, compiled (and happily running) this on 2 > other > Slackware machines - one running 12.0 and the other 13.0, and I really am not > sure what the difference betwee

Re: [Pdns-users] [recursor] configure could be more user-friendly

2010-05-26 Thread bert hubert
Derek, Dave, Stephane, (a rare top-post!), your points are well understood, and will be addressed. The immediate reason that the pdns-recursor did not have full auto*, and is unlikely to get it, was the deep dissatisfaction we felt with this suite of programs. It turned out to be difficult to ha

Re: [Pdns-users] TCP Connection Thread died because of STL error: Reading data: Connection reset by peer

2010-05-26 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:59:31AM +0100, David J Craigon wrote: > Adding a TTL doesn't help. Without one, ordinary queries are responded > to with the default TTL. Ok - can you show all your queries from the configuration? And your db schema? Bert

Re: [Pdns-users] TCP Connection Thread died because of STL error: Reading data: Connection reset by peer

2010-05-26 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:43:04AM +0100, David J Craigon wrote: > isp=# select * from dns.records; >  id | domain_id |   name    | type | >    content  | ttl | prio | change_date > +---+---+--+-

Re: [Pdns-users] [recursor] Segmentation fault at startup

2010-05-26 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:01:38AM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > [BTW, it would be better to do so on a ticketing system but I cannot > find a way to create a new ticket in the PowerDNS Trac.] There is some anti-spam trickery: TO FILE BUGS, OR CHANGE THE WIKI, CLICK 'LOGIN' ABOVE, USERNAME a

Re: [Pdns-users] [recursor] Segmentation fault at startup

2010-05-26 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:18:43AM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > It was properly compiled but the Makefile contains a 'strip > $(DESTDIR)/$(SBINDIR)/pdns_recursor' :-( Debugging the non-installed For installed binaries, this is common. > OK, the ACL parsing is not robust enough. What is str

Re: [Pdns-users] [recursor] Segmentation fault at startup

2010-05-26 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 09:29:57AM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > % pdns_recursor > % uname -a > NetBSD golgoth 5.0.1 NetBSD 5.0.1 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Oct 1 15:46:16 CEST 2009 > steph...@golgoth:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386

Re: [Pdns-users] Acheiving 40,000 QPS

2010-05-17 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 03:23:21PM +0800, Lee Standen wrote: > Thanks for that information, Bert. > > I had seen the documentation before... perhaps I should provide some more > information. > > Here are the options I'm using at the moment (I've tried several values): > > -

Re: [Pdns-users] Acheiving 40,000 QPS

2010-05-16 Thread bert hubert
lps answer your question. The main trick is to have enough queries operating in parallel, which incidentally is a close match to 'real life' heavy use operation. The operating system of the numbers above is Ubuntu Karmic Koala. Let me know if you have further questions. Kind regards, Bert H

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener issue

2010-05-13 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 05:20:18PM +0100, Simon Bedford wrote: > It has happened again over the weekend and a simple restart fixed the issue. Simon, We have a new theory why this might be happening, to verify, if the issue ever occcurs again, can you run: $ netstat -an | grep ^tcp | grep :53 An

Re: [Pdns-users] DENIC outage of .de zones: PowerDNS Recursor workaround

2010-05-12 Thread bert hubert
DENIC reports that the problem has been resolved, please remove the 'forward-zones=de..' statement again. DENIC has indicated these two servers are not able to serve the whole world. Kind regards, Bert Hubert On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 02:51:16PM +0200, bert hubert wrote: > Dear Po

[Pdns-users] DENIC outage of .de zones: PowerDNS Recursor workaround

2010-05-12 Thread bert hubert
Dear PowerDNS people, The German .de zone currently has an outage on most of its TLD servers. To keep your customers able to resolve .de domains reliably, you can use the following configuration setting: forward-zones=de=87.233.175.25;81.91.161.228 Please remove this setting as soon as the .DE z

Re: [Pdns-users] Problem compiling pdns-recursor on Solaris 10

2010-05-06 Thread bert hubert
thoritative contains most of the pdns-recursor sources, it is wrong to build the recursor from there. http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-recursor-3.2.tar.bz2 this is the correct place to start. It should compile out of the box. Kind regards, Bert Hubert > > Operating syst

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener issue

2010-05-05 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 05:37:10PM +0100, Simon Bedford wrote: > >How many TCP/IP queries do you see per second, roughly? A quick run of > >rec_control should dig this up. > > date;rec_control get tcp-questions > Tue May 4 17:34:22 BST 2010 > 79371 > > date;rec_control get tcp-questions > Tue Ma

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener issue

2010-05-05 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:27:13AM +0200, Ton van Rosmalen wrote: > Our primary auth pdns didn't respond to tcp queries anymore where udp > queries still worked. A restart solved the problem. > I didn't think anything of it until I read these new messages on this > thread. > > Could it be a shared

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener issue

2010-05-04 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 05:04:51PM +0100, Simon Bedford wrote: > >We created a patched version in the end and rolled to one server > >back on the 8th April, no fault seen since and now rolled to the > >entire platform as of today, looking good. > > We have now had 2 more failures of the tcp liste

Re: [Pdns-users] DNSSEC changes - May 5th

2010-05-04 Thread bert hubert
ts mean you would have a problem if you had been running BIND and were seeing these results. But you are not. Kind regards, Bert Hubert On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 11:19:36AM -0400, Barron, Josh wrote: > Hello all, > > > > I've been asked to look into the issues stemming from the

[Pdns-users] Repeated statement on non-impact of DNSSEC rollout on PowerDNS Software

2010-04-25 Thread bert hubert
;DNSSEC OK' question, the responses it receive are not altered by the rollout of DNSSEC. Some other server implementations send out 'DNSSEC OK' questions by default, and they might be impacted by large packets, fragmentation, EDNS0 blocking etc. But not PowerDNS. Kind regards, Bert Hu

[Pdns-users] PowerDNSSEC real early version available for testing!

2010-04-21 Thread bert hubert
d what does not work right now! Kind regards, Bert Hubert ___ Pdns-users mailing list Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users

Re: [Pdns-users] Failed to load 'lua' script

2010-04-20 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:57:23AM -0300, Marlon wrote: > I installed Recursor version 3.2 on Gentoo with Lua support enable, but > when try to start powerdns recursor I got this error: Hi Marlon, Put the 'Lua' script within your chroot, and things will work. Make sure the path works in your chro

Re: [Pdns-users] big diff between udp4-answers and udp4-queries

2010-04-08 Thread bert hubert
It may be that you need to add the packetcache-hit statistic to make this fit. You may also be getting questions which are disallowed, and thus get no answer. Can you show your entire statistics dump? And this is the recursor? Bert On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 03:31:04PM +0200, InterNetX - M

Re: [Pdns-users] Recursive lookups over IPv6 failing

2010-04-05 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 12:32:08PM -0600, Brielle Bruns wrote: > I tested this on an isolated server where outside queries wouldn't > affect the cache - and it did the same thing. So, what i'm > wondering, is if its rejecting the first two queries, how is it > getting the final positive response?

Re: [Pdns-users] Recursive lookups over IPv6 failing

2010-04-05 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 11:11:50AM -0600, Brielle Bruns wrote: > >The way I read your message was that it always fails via IPv6, but never via > >IPv4 - can you elaborate a bit? > > > >The default 'allow all' for IPv4 recursion may have been a mistake, a > >mistake we're not repeating for IPv6. > D

Re: [Pdns-users] Recursive lookups over IPv6 failing

2010-04-05 Thread bert hubert
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 11:30:59AM -0600, Brielle Bruns wrote: > So, if allow-recursion is commented out, even though it allows all > ipv4, there's something weird with the way it handles ipv6 that > makes it fail some of the time, succeed other times. But yet, if I > put in an allow for ::/0 it s

Re: [Pdns-users] Recursive lookups over IPv6 failing

2010-04-03 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 01:09:19PM -0600, Brielle Bruns wrote: > Querying from IPv6 host on the same LAN to the server: > > > www.apple.com > ;; Got SERVFAIL reply from 2001:470:e867::3, trying next server Brielle, have you added ::/0 to the allow-recurse list? That solves the exact same issue h

Re: [Pdns-users] strange behaviour pdns-recursor

2010-04-03 Thread bert hubert
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 12:38:10PM +0300, BartSimpson wrote: > Hello. > After some days working pdns-recursor began resolves some addresses > (for example russian news portal lenta.ru) to 195.250.98.20 ip and show me > the following page: Can you run 'dig +trace lenta.ru' on the computer

Re: [Pdns-users] Problem with PowerDNS Recursor 3.2 and EDNS enabled

2010-04-01 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 12:09:12PM +0200, Detlef Peeters wrote: > Hello, > > I've installed yesterday the Update to PowerDNS Recursor 3.2. In the > config I've enabled EDNS with the option "disable-edns=no". Detlef, You've discovered the (removed) EDNS support from PowerDNS. By mistake, 'disable

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener issue

2010-03-31 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 03:09:08PM +0100, Simon Bedford wrote: > >A quick update - I've traced down an issue that may have been causing this. > >Would you be interested in testing this small patch? > I can help test this patch Bert. It can be found on: http://wiki.powerdns.com/trac/changeset/1546

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener issue

2010-03-30 Thread bert hubert
A quick update - I've traced down an issue that may have been causing this. Would you be interested in testing this small patch? Bert On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 02:58:16PM +0100, Simon Bedford wrote: > We have one of the instances on our non live server happening at the > moment so I have n

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener issue

2010-03-25 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 05:54:23PM +0100, Laurent Papier wrote: > I have also upgraded to pdns recursor 3.2 yesterday. And today, I have a > strange > problem on some of my systems. It seems be related to tcp DNS as the only > thing > that stopped working is using tcp dns queries. The rest of th

[Pdns-users] Statement on EDNS, DNSSEC and PowerDNS.

2010-03-19 Thread bert hubert
with the signed root" the results do NOT apply to PowerDNS, but only to BIND (and probably Unbound). Kind regards, Bert Hubert On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 08:13:42AM -0400, Curtis Maurand wrote: > Its my understanding that EDNS is going to be required to exchange > keys properly for DNSSEC

Re: [Pdns-users] EDNS support + default buffer size

2010-03-17 Thread bert hubert
emote. This allows for least packet duplication and the least EDNS-level probing. I hope the above answers your questions. Kind regards, Bert Hubert > > Thanks, > -- > -Michael Fincham > System Administrator, Unleash > www.unleash.co.nz > Phone: 0800 750 250 > >

Re: [Pdns-users] Spikey response times in powerdns recursor

2010-03-17 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:37:24AM +, Simon Bedford wrote: > >bbc.co.uk still has a nameserver that is down, so having that domain resolve > >slowly every once in a while is to be expected. > > Agreed, there is the point that this does not happen in the day > though and although the cache will

Re: [Pdns-users] Spikey response times in powerdns recursor

2010-03-17 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:16:40AM +, Simon Bedford wrote: > >Mar 17 11:57:02 [5] bbc.co.uk.: Resolved 'bbc.co.uk.' NS ns1.bbc.co.uk. to: > >132.185.132.21 > >Mar 17 11:57:02 [5] bbc.co.uk.: Trying IP 132.185.132.21:53, asking > >'bbc.co.uk.|A' > >Mar 17 11:57:04 [5] bbc.co.uk.: timeout reso

Re: [Pdns-users] Spikey response times in powerdns recursor

2010-03-17 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:43:19AM +, Simon Bedford wrote: > We have been running recursor as a caching name server for a number > of months having moved from unbound, since this time we see good, in > fact quick DNS response time but then when running 3.1.7.1 and .2 > and also 3.2.1 we see ra

Re: [Pdns-users] Pdns-recurser not decrementing TTL

2010-03-09 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 11:35:22PM +0200, Paul Wollner wrote: > I have just upgraded from PowerDNS recursor 3.1.7.2 to 3.2. Unfortunately it > appears the TTLs for records are never decremented. > > For the meantime I have reverted to 3.1.7.2. Is anyone else experiencing this > problem? Try se

Re: [Pdns-users] Hardware Questions

2010-03-09 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:39:43AM -0800, Zane Thomas wrote: > Assuming a reasonably performing backend (mysql?) what hardware will be > required for powerdns to answer 70,000q/sec of "normal traffic" (I'm not > sure I know how to define that!). It depends on what number of zones and records you h

Re: [Pdns-users] Negative cache problem since upgrade to 3.2

2010-03-09 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 03:06:09PM +0100, Oli Schacher wrote: > Hi list > > We upgraded our resolvers to 3.2 (Centos5, 64bit) > After the upgrade, the setting max-negative-ttl=30 does not seem to work > anymore. New records take up several minutes until they show up in the > cache. > Even if we ex

[Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor 3.2 Available

2010-03-07 Thread bert hubert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody, Please find below the release notes of the PowerDNS Recursor version 3.2! Compared to RC1 and RC2 this version mostly contains compilation and platform fixes (for Solaris and CentOS4/RHEL4), as well as improved statistics, diagnostics a

Re: [Pdns-users] External CNames

2010-03-05 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 11:04:16AM -0500, Ross Halliday wrote: > We don't have PowerDNS rolled out here yet so I can't speak from > experience, but it makes sense to me that PowerDNS might just > regurgitate the contents of the record for a CNAME whereas everything > else is processed internally, h

Re: [Pdns-users] cache size and max-cache-entries

2010-03-05 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 11:55:16AM +0100, Fabien Seisen wrote: > i have some difficulties to understand what "max-cache-entries" means. Fabien, Which PowerDNS Recursor version did you test against? For a period of 5 minutes, in 3.1.7 you might see far higher numbers. This is addressed in 3.2.

Re: [Pdns-users] DNSSEC support in PowerDNS

2010-03-03 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 08:43:46AM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > >You have just given the answer to yourself. :-) > thanks for confirming this! Now, what is the status of the WIP? 5% > done, 99% and quite ready for release, else? The current status is that PowerDNSSEC 'lite' will be released in ver

Re: [Pdns-users] Pdns-Recursor / socket-* options

2010-03-02 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 10:11:38AM +0100, GAVARRET, David wrote: > Hi all, > > does anybody manage to use the socket-* options from pdns-recursor ? I > tried to use them to get the control socket being owned by a specified > user/group (in order to get rec_control used by users from the group).

Re: [Pdns-users] Multipart TXT records

2010-03-01 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 03:44:04PM +, Chris Sarginson wrote: > Hi Bert > > >Chris, try inserting the content in the database as one record, with content > >between quotes. I think it will split automatically. If it does not, split > >the data yourself. > > The data is being split manually,

Re: [Pdns-users] Multipart TXT records

2010-03-01 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 03:29:50PM +, Chris Sarginson wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm trying to use the authoratitive server with a MySQL backend to do > multipart TXT records - on the advice of someone in IRC I just tried > inserting multiple records, however doing this is resulting in the record

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