Re: [Pdns-users] Differing (incorrect) behavior in 2.9.21 for AAAA records versus 2.9.20...

2007-08-11 Thread bert hubert
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 09:51:24AM -0600, Michael Loftis wrote: The behavior for 's clearly differs from that for A's, so one just needs to see how A's are being handled and make sure 's are being handled similarly. (yes just heh. I haven't looked at teh new backend code at all)

Re: [Pdns-users] Differing (incorrect) behavior in 2.9.21 for AAAA records versus 2.9.20...

2007-08-11 Thread bert hubert
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 11:06:23AM -0700, Augie Schwer wrote: A fix is in svn, so I wonder if people can verify that it solves the problem. Good luck! That looks like it fixes it Bert. I'll have to do some more testing on Monday, but preliminary results look good. Thank you so much

[Pdns-users] PowerDNS Training Documentation Survey

2007-08-13 Thread bert hubert
retaining the subject 'PowerDNS Training Survey'. Please do not answer to the mailing list! We will let you know the conclusions we draw from your responses. Many thanks, Bert Hubert PowerDNS -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software

Re: [Pdns-users] Exeption error in syslog

2007-08-25 Thread bert hubert
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 11:47:00PM +0200, Schramm e.K. [ Deutschland ] wrote: Aug 25 23:28:19 spider1 pdns[23029]: Exception: Parsing record content: Data field in DNS should start with quote () at position 0 of '81.95.0.138' Which datafield ? Try: select * from records where content =

Re: [Pdns-users] Exeption error in syslog

2007-08-26 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 12:26:42AM +0200, Schramm e.K. [ Deutschland ] wrote: thanks for your nightly response :) perfekt job. i located a record which contained wrong data. when will pdns 3.0 released ? When it is ready. Some important issues in 2.9.21 have already been fixed, but I'm

Re: [Pdns-users] AIX binaries

2007-08-26 Thread bert hubert
that is basically free. As part of our support agreements we can make custom binaries however. Support details are available on request. Kind regards, bert hubert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed source services

Re: [Pdns-users] CNAME record to an external domain

2007-09-03 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:22:53PM +0200, Marko Kobal wrote: Hi, I'll be even more specific, as the problem is even more interesting. We are talking about my dns server dns1.arctur.si (MASTER) 1) I have domain tehnodrvo.hr with external CNAME record: tehnodrvo.hr CNAME

Re: [Pdns-users] CNAME record to an external domain

2007-09-04 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 06:47:05PM +0200, Marko Kobal wrote: However, I do have another question. If I want such a domain to be resolvable (like www.urad.si CNAME urad.blogspot.com) I need to open (allow) my recursor for the whole world. Would it not be better to No, that is not needed.

Re: [Pdns-users] CNAME record to an external domain

2007-09-04 Thread bert hubert
Marko, Now actually try if the domain resolves. It will. Nslookup is a very confusing tool, and this is how DNS works. Bert On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 09:37:54PM +0200, Marko Kobal wrote: Hi, bert hubert pravi: On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 06:47:05PM +0200, Marko Kobal wrote: However, I

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS does not expire domains - propagates lame delegation.

2007-09-12 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:55:06AM +1000, Richard McLean wrote: At 12:51 PM -0700 12/9/07, Augie Schwer wrote: Alternatively Bind seems to note the non-authoritative answer from its master and add the domain into a some list (neg. cache, etc.) and not answer authoritatively for it. Am I

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns_recursor stops getting queries on Solaris 10 sparc

2007-09-12 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 09:35:27PM +0100, Alex Kiernan wrote: I made these changes earlier today - its been running for ~6 hours now, answered 5.3M queries and still hasn't hung: Cool! This is a variation on http://wiki.powerdns.com/cgi-bin/trac.fcgi/changeset/1059 The more general fix is to

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns_recursor stops getting queries on Solaris 10 sparc

2007-09-13 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 03:16:12PM +0100, Alex Kiernan wrote: I've run another 8M queries through it in a test environment, and put it onto a live box where its been up for 5 hours, answered over a million queries and I've not seen a problem, so I'm hoping that this is the right fix. Certainly

Re: [Pdns-users] Why does pdns_recursor log stats at priority error

2007-09-13 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:45:52PM +0100, Alex Kiernan wrote: We collect all our syslog error messages into one file - getting pdns_recursors stats in there is blooming irritating. Is there a good reason it doesn't log them at something like info? Not really - Jan Gyselinck looked into our

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns_recursor stops getting queries on Solaris 10 sparc

2007-09-14 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 01:51:19PM +0100, Alex Kiernan wrote: Prepare to be surprised... I added instrumention so the code looked like this: Very cool you discovered this! This is pretty amazing. However, what I don't get is how this actually causes problems - we should get ret=0 on the next

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns_recursor stops getting queries on Solaris 10 sparc

2007-09-14 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 02:26:59PM +0100, Alex Kiernan wrote: Sep 14 13:19:49 1:ret=-1,errno=62,numevents=4 Sep 14 13:19:49 2:ret=-1,errno=62,numevents=4 and then nothing further logged (i.e. its still answering queries), so it certainly seems like when you get ETIME from port_getn you must

Re: [Pdns-users] Maximum Length of content row in mysql

2007-09-15 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 05:25:53PM -0500, Ed McLain wrote: I have a need to set the content row in mysql to something greater than 255 characters and I'm curious as to what the maximum string length is allowed to be in the source? If I change the row type to SMALLTEXT from VARCHAR(255) and

Re: [Pdns-users] Parsing record content: Data field in DNS should start with quote on TXT/SPF records

2007-09-20 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 07:23:44PM +, Julian Mehnle wrote: all of a sudden, I am having trouble with TXT or SPF records in PowerDNS 2.9.21 (on Debian). I repeatedly get the following errors in syslog: Do you use the debian package? There is specific support in PowerDNS to either support

Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS 2.9.21 using LOTS of virtual memory...

2007-09-20 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 02:52:50PM -0700, Stephen Manchester wrote: I've been running PDNS server on CentOS 4.4 for about 3 months now. I've noticed that PDNS allocates a LOT of virtual memory as it's running, and never frees it up. It can do this at an incredibly fast rate at times,

Re: [Pdns-users] no default cache-limit in pdns recursor?

2007-09-25 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 12:58:15PM +0200, Rudolph Bott wrote: Hey List, does the powerDNS recursor limit itself to a reasonable amount of cache entries if you do *not* set the relevant parameter in recursor.conf? We had No, it doesn't. 1 million entries is generally more than enough. This

Re: [Pdns-users] Debian Packages on powerdns.com

2007-09-25 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:42:38PM +1000, Duane wrote: By default these packages run as root, where as the debian packages drop privileges by default. That is correct. We don't want to create new users. Bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns_recursor parser error

2007-09-25 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:37:19AM +0100, Alex Kiernan wrote: Not sure who's right/wrong here, but it is something on which bind and pdns-recursor disagree. This is a small bug in PowerDNS. DNS parser error: sexycash.de., Parsing record content: expected digits at position 28 in

Re: [Pdns-users] name resolution problem for one domain

2007-09-25 Thread bert hubert
Antu, Is this problem still there? Bert On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 10:49:31AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hai, I have one problem on my pdns-recursor-3.1.4-1 version power DNS server. I am unable resolve one site stjoehonda.com from my powerDNS server. I restart the server

Re: [Pdns-users] round robin answer

2007-09-30 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 06:26:19PM +0200, Marcel Meyer wrote: Whatever. How can I instruct PDNS to only serve a single A-record (but still choosen radomised out of several ones)? I'm using the gmysql-backend and would like to keep it *g*. Your description is a bit complicated, but I think

Re: [Pdns-users] Client IP address in backend query?

2007-10-01 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:14:16PM +0100, Daniel Eggleston wrote: Does anybody know if it's possible to pass the client IP address as a variable to the gmysql backend in a custom query? What an interesting idea! Not immediately obvious how to add it though. We could have a certain magic %IP%

Re: [Pdns-users] problems with recursor

2007-10-06 Thread bert hubert
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 11:16:53AM +0200, Marko Kobal wrote: I have problems with recursor, but don't know exactly what could be the issue. In general, the recursor works just fine, resolves any kind of domains, however, in some special cases, the resolving returns NXDOMAIN, althrough it

Re: [Pdns-users] Interpreting server variables

2007-10-07 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 02:36:49PM +0200, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: I'd appreciate a bit of help in interpreting some server variables for a performance comparison chapter. How many different queries do you send? Do you have recursion to deal with? The bind backend turns off some forms of caching

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns_recursor brings both old/new A for L.root-servers.net

2007-11-09 Thread bert hubert
you for your other problem reports, I am looking into them. Apologies for not getting back to you earlier on this. Kind regards, Bert Hubert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed source services

Re: [Pdns-users] OpenDBX vs Generic-Mysql/Pgsql backends

2007-11-12 Thread bert hubert
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 05:33:58PM +0100, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: I'm searching for reasons why new PowerDNS users would choose the generic Mysql/PostgreSQL (gmysql) backends over the OpenDBX backend, apart from the fact that the OpenDBX backend isn't documented at doc.powerdns.com. The

[Pdns-users] PowerDNS MySQL API in Perl by a PowerDNS user

2007-11-14 Thread bert hubert
Hi everybody, PowerDNS user 'armormatic' has written a PowerDNS MySQL API in Perl which might be useful for other PowerDNS users. You can find it on http://armormatic.com/code/powerdns_mysqlapi/ Bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software

Re: [Pdns-users] SMP support

2007-11-16 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 12:00:51PM +0100, T?t?nyi Istv?n wrote: I wonder if PowerDNS in authoritive mode can utilize multiple CPU-s under recent Linux 2.6 kernels? Istvan, Depending on how things work, PowerDNS can indeed benefit from multiple processors. When serving data entirely from the

Re: [Pdns-users] recursor config reload without restart

2007-11-16 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 01:40:19PM +0300, Imre Gergely wrote: is it possible to tell the running pdns recursor process to re-read the config file (i'm interested in the allow-recursion acl) WITHOUT restarting the whole recursor and losing the cache ? No, this is not completely possible. so

[Pdns-users] Mailing list downtime

2007-11-30 Thread bert hubert
Dear PowerDNS friends, Due to a recent mistake in moving our servers, the mailing lists have been offline for most of the past week. While everything should be in working order, please let me know (privately) if you experience problem accessing any of our web pages. Kind regards, Bert Hubert

Re: [Pdns-users] problem with naptr answer

2007-11-30 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 07:56:18AM -0800, Eli.Birova wrote: I am using 2.9.20 on Debian with gpgsql backend. We are trying to set up Quick answer is that NAPTR received a lot of fixes in 2.9.21, so perhaps you could try that. Good luck! -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database

Re: [Pdns-users] Fatal STL error: St9bad_alloc

2007-12-06 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 12:48:41PM +0100, Massimo Bandinelli wrote: My dns has worked very well since April. One week ago I've had a problem. My dns crashes during a rediscover but continues answer the queries. I have six server and it's happened on each server at different times. Can you

Re: [Pdns-users] Migration bind to pdns: no logging yet

2008-01-27 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 12:02:24PM +0100, Hugo van der Kooij wrote: I am fresh to pdns but a long time bind user. I did go over the full manual once but I seem to have a bit of a problem in getting pdns to log. And that makes the learning transition much harder. It logs to syslog by default.

Re: [Pdns-users] NOTIFY FAILURE!

2008-01-27 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 12:44:39PM +, Ale * wrote: Hello to all, I'm a newbie about PowerDNS. On a first machine (192.168.0.1) I have PowerDNS act as master that use mysql(gmysql) backend and on another machine (192.168.0.2) bind9 act as slave. So I have setup both PowerDNS and bind9

Re: [Pdns-users] problems with zone transfer pdns - bind

2008-01-27 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 03:46:44PM +0100, Rudolph Bott wrote: We are running bind 9.3.4 and pdns 2.9.20 (both from standard debian packages). *Usually* bind triggers a retransfer of the zone shortly after the first attempt failed and that one always seems to work fine. 2.9.21 has a lot of

Re: [Pdns-users] Tools to analyse DNS traffic

2008-01-27 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 04:00:16PM -0800, Eugene Pefti wrote: are dnsreplay, dnswasher, and dnsscope. But they don't come as part of pdns-2.9.21. Where can I get them? Extract the pdns-2.9.21.tar file, do configure, cd pdns, and then run 'make dnsreplay dnswasher dnsscope'. Better versions

Re: [Pdns-users] Is a valid NOTIFY received by PowerDNS suppose to initiate an AXFR?

2008-01-30 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 04:25:51PM +, Jaco Engelbrecht wrote: I've got a PowerDNS 2.9.20 instance, configured as supermaster for a Bind 9 instance which sends notifies to the PowerDNS instance. Hi Jaco, Would it be possible for you to try with 2.9.21? However, for some reason when

Re: [Pdns-users] Delegate domain in pdns

2008-02-04 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:51:50AM -0800, petecooper wrote: 1. Add (or confirm) a NS record on domain.com pointing to ns0.ourdomain.com (itself) 2. Create a new domain record with name 'email.domain.com' 3. Add third-party's NS records with name = 'email.domain.com' and the data as the

Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS tools

2008-02-05 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:49:37AM -0800, Eugene Pefti wrote: Hi friends, After successfully compiling pdns tools such as dnsscope, dnsreplay and dnswasher I stumbled upon running one of them. I generated tcpdump file with tcpdump command: #tcpdump dumpfile This is wrong, try: tcpdump

Re: [Pdns-users] Single PDNS Instance Listen on Multiple IPs?

2008-02-06 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 07:00:36PM +0100, Hugo van der Kooij wrote: I though pdns was about simplicity. This is making things complex without any benefit but with the added burden of IP adresses and such to maintain. It isn't wrong but it seems illogical to me to make things this complex.

Re: [Pdns-users] third-party DNS tests fail with fatal errors

2008-02-06 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:40:38AM -0800, Eugene Pefti wrote: Hi friends, Can anybody explain me the meaning of this fatal error: [TEST coherence between SOA and ANY records]: server failure (IN/ANY: premiere1.com.) [TEST coherence between NS and ANY records]: server failure (IN/ANY:

[Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.5 snapshot 3 available

2008-02-06 Thread bert hubert
Hi everybody, We are heading up to a release of version 3.1.5 of the PowerDNS Recursor. Since it has been a long time since 3.1.4, which appears to have been a very good release, we are doing some snapshots. This snapshot 3 is in production, and appears to work, but take care when deploying!

[Pdns-users] IPv6 testers wanted for snapshot4!

2008-02-10 Thread bert hubert
Hi IPv6 friends, Since the root zone now contains records, as do many TLD zones, I've given our IPv6 support a lot of love. Please test http://svn.powerdns.com/snapshots/pdns-recursor-3.1.5-snapshot4.tar.bz2 It should be *completely* IPv6/IPv4 agnostic, in that it can resolve domains like

fixed Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS log file configuration

2008-02-23 Thread bert hubert
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 08:35:09AM +0100, Hugo van der Kooij wrote: Yeah. I have stumbled over the same feature. Even after reading the manual from cover to cover. So I would suggest to add a comment to the default sample config file that this particular option is for windows only. I think

Re: [Pdns-users] powerdns master, bind slave, slave not updating...

2008-03-03 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 02:58:18PM -0800, Mathew Hennessy wrote: I've tried converting from BIND9 to PowerDNS configured as a slave with opendbx/sqlite3, and I'm still not getting any love. How can I trick the master into not sending SERVFAIL for this demonstration setup? If PowerDNS is not

Re: [Pdns-users] TinyDNS backend for PowerDNS

2008-03-15 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:17:58AM +1100, Duane wrote: bert hubert wrote: This is because PowerDNS internally makes 'backend queries', not 'dns queries'. This in turn is because we want to free the backend from knowing about DNS logic - otherwise it would have to follow CNAME chains etc

Re: [Pdns-users] TinyDNS backend for PowerDNS

2008-03-15 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:52:21AM +1100, Duane wrote: I'm unhappy it doesn't match your needs though, but perhaps you want something else. Basically you get a lot of ANY queries, instead of queries for the exact type requested. This turns out to be a large speedup, but it may hurt you.

[Pdns-users] Call for recursive testing data - please help!

2008-03-16 Thread bert hubert
it is for us. Please contact me on how to transfer these files to me. We will treat your anonymised data as confidential, of course. Kind regards, Bert Hubert PowerDNS -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed source

[Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.5-snapshot5 available

2008-03-16 Thread bert hubert
Hi everybody, The provisional release notes for PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.5 can be found on: http://doc.powerdns.com/changelog.html#CHANGELOG-RECURSOR-3-1-5 Snapshot 5 is available on: http://svn.powerdns.com/snapshots/pdns-recursor-3.1.5-snapshot5.tar.bz2 For Linux, i386:

Re: [Pdns-users] Call for recursive testing data - please help!

2008-03-17 Thread bert hubert
Regards, Ton van Rosmalen bert hubert schreef: Dear PowerDNS users, PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.5 is around the corner, shaping up to be a rather important upgrade, and we need your help! 3.1.5 is in large scale production use in some places already, which has helped shake out a number

Re: [Pdns-users] TinyDNS backend for PowerDNS

2008-03-17 Thread bert hubert
Clearw're Senior Systems Engineer From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Duane Sent: Sat 3/15/2008 4:21 PM To: pdns-users Subject: Re: [Pdns-users] TinyDNS backend for PowerDNS bert hubert wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:52:21AM +1100, Duane wrote

[Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.5-rc1 released - expected to be final

2008-03-22 Thread bert hubert
Dear PowerDNS users, Following snapshot5, 'release candidate 1' is released today. RC1 is expected to be final, so your help in testing right now is very appreciated, and should be relatively risk free. RC1 is already running in production in some places, as is snapshot5. .tar.bz2 (source):

Re: [Pdns-users] Warp3 Hosting violates the GPL

2008-03-24 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:30:14PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, I hope that someone here can give some advice regarding the following. It is indeed not the right place. The only people that can act on this are the copyright

Re: [Pdns-users] Crash with signal 11

2008-04-07 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:44:44AM +0200, Oli Schacher wrote: I wrote a script to mass-notify a few domains: Version please? We have two slaves running on Centos 5, using sqlite3 backend. When I ran this script, using about 40 domains, one slave crashed: Interesting. Apr 7 11:11:59 ns1

Re: [Pdns-users] Help, recursor is too slow, mostly doesn't resolve queries

2008-04-28 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 09:00:30PM -0700, Eugene Pefti wrote: I would highly appreciate if somebody help me. We rolled out powerdns into production mode and after several hours of monitoring I found that the recursor is not resolving queries. The service restart could help but then again it

Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS slow

2008-04-28 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 05:37:07PM -0700, Eugene Pefti wrote: I would support Alexx's statement about the overall performance. Just now one of my nameservers died with Can I suggest that you answer my questions from yesterday? That would actually allow me to help you. PowerDNS 2.9.21 is used

Re: [Pdns-users] Latency and cache size are correlated

2008-04-30 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 05:17:57PM -0700, Eugene Pefti wrote: Can somebody explain me why the recursor cache size and latency are correlated and directly proportional? This is my dns graph. http://ns2.w3media.net/recursor/ Whenever the cache grows up to 30K entries the latency reaches as high

Re: [Pdns-users] powerdns auth and recursor hardware specs

2008-04-30 Thread bert hubert
This hardware is very very adequate. Please answer my other questions before asking more yourself please. Bert On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:39:38PM -0700, Eugene Pefti wrote: I think I miss something here. Can somebody give an example of hardware specs for the authoritative server with

[Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.6 released - contains a small security fix

2008-05-03 Thread bert hubert
Released on the 1st of May 2008 - contains a small security fix. Generic GPL sources: http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-recursor-3.1.6.tar.bz2 32-bit Linux: http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/deb/pdns-recursor_3.1.6-1_i386.deb

Re: [Pdns-users] Problem parsing domain

2008-05-08 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:54:56AM +0200, Flavio Curti wrote: We run a powerdns 2.9.20 and a 2.9.21. We are secondary for a domain. 2.9.20 can fetch the domain from the primary, 2.9.21 gives the following error: So I understand correctly that neither 2.9.21 nor 'dig' can retrieve the domain?

Re: [Pdns-users] Problem parsing domain

2008-05-08 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 11:36:13AM +0200, Flavio Curti wrote: 2.9.21 can not, this is correct. dig gives the full zone, but the warning embedded: Your master nameserver is sending out corrupt packets, it sets the opcode wrong. If you really want this to work, you'll need to change this line

Re: [Pdns-users] Problem parsing domain

2008-05-08 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 04:54:01PM +0200, Flavio Curti wrote: Our customer is running Mac OS9 and mac dns 1.0.4 (shudder?!). Anyway, he claims it has worked the last XYZ years. I'm a bit hesitating patching the source, which I then have to repatch for every powerdns release. Is there any

Re: [Pdns-users] NS caching bug reappears in recursor 3.1.6

2008-05-16 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 03:43:44PM -0600, Darren Gamble wrote: The issue is that the cache always caches information it receives in the Authority Section. This can cause a problem where it indefinitely consults a server that is no longer supposed to be authoritative for a zone, but is still

Re: [Pdns-users] AXFR problem

2008-05-22 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 07:56:32PM +0200, Albert wrote: Hi I have a problem with the transfer of the domain, the backup server is not collected from the primary server. When you call the [EMAIL PROTECTED] osanet.pl axfr-b 83.17.46.74 is charged only one record, in a zone where there are 7

Re: [Pdns-users] AXFR problem

2008-05-22 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:52:19AM +0200, Albert wrote: +---+---++--+---+---+--+-++ | id| domain_id | name | type | content | ttl | prio |

Re: [Pdns-users] Disable AFXR of MBOXFW, URL and CURL records ?

2008-05-22 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 03:20:46PM +0200, Jeroen Wunnink wrote: Any way to block URL, CURL and MBOXFW records from trying to be transferred over ? Jeroen, These records are 'fake' and I haven't implemented how they can travel over DNS. Just leaving them out would break your zone I'm afraid.

Re: [Pdns-users] AXFR problem

2008-05-22 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:21:48PM +0200, Albert wrote: Now I delte domain osanet.pl and add again and nothing has changed: Do you have other domains that you can transfer on that server? And another suggestion, can you fix the SOA record to have all the relevant numbers? Bert --

Re: [Pdns-users] NS caching bug reappears in recursor 3.1.6

2008-05-26 Thread bert hubert
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 09:48:07AM -0600, Darren Gamble wrote: OK. Well, you can easily see this behavior on pretty much any domain, although the behavior doesn't cause an issue except in some unusual cases. The situation I described is simply the one that results in many calls to our call

Re: [Pdns-users] this ubiquitous recursor again, problems ....

2008-05-30 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:44:15AM -0700, Eugene Pefti wrote: I know that nothing happens all of a sudden but one of my nameservers started playing up again with the recursor. Please provide version of pdns recursor and where you got it from. Is there anything interesting about your

Re: [Pdns-users] this ubiquitous recursor again, problems ....

2008-05-31 Thread bert hubert
there are no firewalls. It sits on the public network. Eugene -Original Message- From: bert hubert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 11:31 AM To: Eugene Pefti Cc: pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com Subject: Re: [Pdns-users] this ubiquitous recursor again, problems

Re: [Pdns-users] Recursor problem when zone has no NS records

2008-06-04 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:30:43PM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote: A customer has recently led me to discover that pdns_recursor, when performing a recursive query, such as looking for a 'A' record for the likes of 119.177.179.77.zen.spamhaus.org, times out and fails due to the fact that the

[Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor Lua scripting

2008-06-15 Thread bert hubert
Hi everybody, Over the past week, together with a number of PowerDNS users and Lua experts, I've added support for scripting the PowerDNS Recursor to do interesting things. From the provisional 3.1.7 release notes: This version contains powerful scripting abilities, allowing operators to

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor Lua scripting

2008-06-15 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:04:53PM +0200, Norbert Sendetzky wrote: Interesting concept. What about performance if scripting abilities are compiled in? Do you have any figures when simple scripts are used? If the abilities are compiled in, but no script is loaded, the impact should be

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor Lua scripting

2008-06-15 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 04:21:39PM -0700, Sargun Dhillon wrote: How are you compiling the Lua script? How exactly are you executing it? What sort of memory overhead can this create? Everything is done using native Lua calls. The memory overhead should be very small. The Lua interpreter runs

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor Lua scripting

2008-06-16 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 08:41:12PM +0200, Christopher Arnold wrote: Is there any plans to add lua support to the resolver so we can add loadbalancing etc. on a global scale for people accessing servers? The recursor already has the 'pipe' backend allowing backends to be written in any

[Pdns-users] please test PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.7-rc3!

2008-06-22 Thread bert hubert
Hi everybody, In a few days time, version 3.1.7 of the PowerDNS Recursor will be released. This is a rather exciting release because of the new scripting abilities, so I ask you to take a good look at 3.1.7-rc3 to see if it does everything you think it should be doing! This version, or something

Re: [Pdns-users] Delegating whole domain

2008-06-24 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:40:29AM +0200, Lazy wrote: Hello, We have some troble delegating the wlole domain on some other nameserver. Delegating subdomains works flawlessly. Are you trying to re-delegate a domain? So in the .pl zone it is delegated to you, but you are trying to re-delegate it

[Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.7 released - with DNS scripting!

2008-06-25 Thread bert hubert
Available on: http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-recursor-3.1.7.tar.bz2 http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/deb/pdns-recursor_3.1.7-1_i386.deb http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/deb/pdns-recursor_3.1.7-1_amd64.deb

Re: [Pdns-users] Patch to fix Makefile-recursor for Make 3.80

2008-06-30 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:42:58PM -0700, Augie Schwer wrote: I needed to apply the following before I could get the latest PowerDNS Recursor (3.1.7) to build under CentOS 4 using Make version 3.80; which admittedly is a version that is six years out of date. Applied, thanks! --

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns-recursor on Solaris

2008-07-01 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 08:25:25AM +0600, Anatoliy Kushner wrote: Is it possible to build pdns-recursor for solaris ? Yes, and this is done frequently. Bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns multithread

2008-07-02 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:12:38PM +0600, Anatoliy Kushner wrote: Is it possible to control number of threads in pdns_recursor ? In docs i find only --fork parameter after wich i see 2 processes in my process list Anatoliy, That is about right. Some tricks have been performed to run more

Re: [Pdns-users] host command returning weird results. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

2008-07-09 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 11:45:44AM -0500, Nicholas Williams wrote: I setup PowerDNS with a MySQL 5 backend on Centos 5 this morning. I put in the test.com example records that come in the PowerDNS user guide. When I perform a host query, as suggested in the guide, I get this: Quick answer -

[Pdns-users] Statement on the recent DNS vulnerability impact on PowerDNS (none)

2008-07-09 Thread bert hubert
, on-list or off. Kind regards, Bert Hubert PowerDNS.COM BV -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed source services ___ Pdns-users mailing list Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com

Re: [Pdns-users] Statement on the recent DNS vulnerability impact on PowerDNS (none)

2008-07-09 Thread bert hubert
Some more personal notes on this issue can be found on http://blog.netherlabs.nl/articles/2008/07/09/some-thoughts-on-the-recent-dns-vulnerability Bert On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 08:16:19PM +0200, bert hubert wrote: We're being approached from various angles about PowerDNS and the recently

Re: [Pdns-users] Problems with ANY query

2008-07-16 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:21:23PM +0200, Martijn Grendelman wrote: I have a problem with some PowerDNS servers, running 2.9.20 with gmysql backend, in particular with ANY queries. I get good results for some domains but not for others, and I have no idea why. Hi Martijn, First let me say

Re: [Pdns-users] TCP nameserver had error

2008-07-24 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:08:40PM +0200, Ronny Wagner wrote: Logmessage: Jul 24 17:05:02 sv02 pdns[1]: TCP nameserver had error, cycling backend: Reading data: Connection reset by peer What is that for a fail message? It is not very important - a remote nameserver that queried you

Re: [Pdns-users] Use recursor to block phishing

2008-07-25 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 09:47:56AM -0300, Marlon wrote: How I create a zone on recursor to block phishing sites ? The other solution that was emailed works as well, but in addition, you can use the 'auth-zones' in the configuration file to point these domains to a zone containing nothing but a

Re: [Pdns-users] Use recursor to block phishing

2008-07-25 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 01:14:33PM -0300, Marlon wrote: Sorry for the newbie question, but what is the format of zone file that recursor accept ? Regular zonefile format, with the exception of wildcards. Bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software

Re: [Pdns-users] Wildcard A Record Question

2008-07-28 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 08:47:08PM +0200, Gabriel J Marais wrote: Resolved : Seems like the missing SOA and NS records were needed to successfully do *wildcards in PDNS. PowerDNS really needs SOA records in the database, otherwise it takes the liberty to assume the zone is not there. This is

Re: [Pdns-users] Use recursor to block phishing

2008-07-29 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:39:04PM -0300, sysadmin wrote: Regular zonefile format, with the exception of wildcards. I setup recursor to load zone file as follow * IN A 127.0.0.1 A * is a wildcard - which sadly does not work yet in the powerdns recursor auth server.

Re: [Pdns-users] Where can I download Windows binaries?

2008-07-29 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 09:48:15AM +, Annoyed Tuna wrote: Does anyone know where I can download Win32 binaries for 2.9.21? Hello 'Annoyed Tuna', I'm afraid there are no windows binaries for 2.9.21 - they are a lot of work to create and we don't get enough interest for them. Sorry. --

Re: [Pdns-users] Use recursor to block phishing

2008-07-29 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 07:30:13AM -0300, sysadmin wrote: This should simply be: zonadelafrontera.cl=malware this format doesn't work too, the result still the same: Marlon, Please show your entire recursor configuration - I wonder if your file is actually being loaded! Bert --

Re: Can pdns-recursor forward . ? / Re: [Pdns-users] Where can I download Windows binaries?

2008-07-29 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:49:24PM +0200, Leen Besselink wrote: I have an other reason I might want a windows binary. In this case for PowerDNS-recursor. You can compile the powerdns recursor on windows if you are reasonably windows savvy. It takes me around two days to get it working usually.

Re: [Pdns-users] Where can I download Windows binaries?

2008-07-29 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:24:36PM +0200, Rick Jansen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think there would be a lot more interest from Windows Server users, if recent download packages would be available. And Windows users, I think, are often more commercial users, with

Re: Can pdns-recursor forward . ? / Re: [Pdns-users] Where can I download Windows binaries?

2008-07-29 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:37:27PM +0200, Leen Besselink wrote: Is it a Visual Studio or something like cygwin you use to compile it ? Visual studio express works very well, and it is a free (if complicated) download. Bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven

Re: [Pdns-users] Re: Can pdns-recursor forward . ? / Re: Where can I download Windows binaries?

2008-07-29 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:00:51AM +0200, Leen Besselink wrote: I guess it depends how the UDP forwarder is implemented - there is no reason why the forwarder wouldn't be able to use similarly randomised source ports (but you would lose caching, of course) I agree, but I've never seen one.

Re: [Pdns-users] powerdns segfaulting?

2008-07-31 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 09:29:27AM -0700, Daniel Greene - (mt) Media Temple wrote: Very strange.. we just had one of our 3-node pdns clusters go down, each box with a different issue. One had segfaulted, one had hung on a FUTEX call (from strace, though there was a bit of a rush to get the

[Pdns-users] Security update: PowerDNS Authoritative Server 2.9.21.1 released

2008-08-06 Thread bert hubert
Released on the 6th of August 2008. * http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-2.9.21.1.tar.gz * http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/deb/stable/pdns-static_2.9.21.1-1_i386.deb * http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/rpm/pdns-static-2.9.21.1-1.i386.rpm * All UNIX/Linux distributions

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