Re: [Pdns-users] allow-axfr-ips or how can I setup a special zone-transfer-policy for every domain

2007-05-09 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 07:33:50PM +0200, thomas polnik wrote: > I must prevent, that customer B can do a zone transfer for > customer-a.de. If I use > allow-axfr-ips=192.168.100.10, 10.10.10.10 > customer B can take a look in all data from the domain customer-a.de. Indeed - this is not currently

Re: [Pdns-users] wildcard throws signal 11

2007-05-12 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 05:24:31PM -0700, Gary W. Smith wrote: > I'm running 2.9.21 under rPath. When a wildcard request is issued I'm > seeing signal 11. Any ideas? Can you be a bit more precise? What kind of request exactly? >From this (excellent) backtrace, I can see that your SOA record has

Re: [Pdns-users] Problem with NS Glue records - "out-of-zone data"

2007-05-12 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 05:59:52PM +0200, Andre Lorbach wrote: > for those with the same problem, I have found a workaround myself which > needs some code modifications. This is debian specific, but will work on > other linux systems as well. What I have done is, I kindly changed the > code at the

Re: [Pdns-users] auto serial vs gpsql backend

2007-05-12 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 04:06:49PM -0400, James Cloos wrote: > I thought I had read that the gpgsql backend now supports auto serial > numbers, but I cannot get it to work. It is not working as intended last time I checked. -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Softwar

Re: [Pdns-users] recursion was desired

2007-05-12 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 04:50:34PM +0200, Julian St?ver wrote: > > ping google.de > > ping: unkown host google.de Julian, You have configured your computer to send recursive queries to your authoritative powerdns server. For this to work, you need to install the recursor as well, and point the a

Re: [Pdns-users] List archives on Nabble

2007-05-17 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:34:26AM +0200, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: > I had some difficulties searching for past messages in the archives, so > I had Nabble create a forum and import the pdns-users archives. The URL is: > > http://www.nabble.com/PowerDNS-f22536.html Nice! Although it did not appea

Re: [Pdns-users] wildcard throws signal 11

2007-05-21 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 02:39:31PM +1000, Chris Seufert wrote: > May 22 11:33:06 /lib/tls/libc.so.6(snprintf+0x35) [0xb7db3365] > May 22 11:33:06 > /usr/sbin/pdns_server(_ZN11GSQLBackend6lookupERK5QTypeRKSsP9DNSPacketi+0x19e) > [0x811b18e] > gmysql-basic-query=select * from vpowerdns WHERE dnsty

Re: [Pdns-users] Redundant Database Connections

2007-06-07 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:41:58AM -0700, Max Clark wrote: > Is opendbx included in the main source or only as a patch? It is in the main source, but Norbert might have a version more recent on his website. Bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software

Re: [Pdns-users] Is records.change_date actually used?

2007-06-10 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 05:41:28PM +0200, Stefan Arentz wrote: > I see it is referenced in the old mysqlcbackend but in the > gmysqlbackend that field doesn't seem to be used at all. Indeed. > Is this intentional or am I overlooking something? The documentation > states that it is used for au

Re: [Pdns-users] Recursor 3.1.4 on NetBSD 3.1 (alpha architecture)

2007-06-24 Thread bert hubert
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 08:46:36PM -0300, Eduardo Roldan wrote: > Recursor on the described platform exhibits strange behavior. > It compiles with many warnings. It runs, but at the first query received > it segfaults. Also, for example: Eduardo, We'd love to resolve this issue. Please provide th

Re: [Pdns-users] Cannot allocate memory

2007-06-24 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 12:03:20AM +0200, Schramm e.K. [ Deutschland ] wrote: > I recently upgraded one of our pdns servers from 2.6.20 to 2.6.21. After > 12-15 hours of operation TCP requests started to fail and the following is > written to the logfile(s) : Can you run: netstat -an | grep ESTA

Re: [Pdns-users] How to store DS Recs?

2007-06-28 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 06:44:29AM +0200, Schramm e.K. [ Deutschland ] wrote: > how to store DS records in the pds database? > actually i have in the content field: > > "50237 1 1 378929E92D7DA04267EE87E802D75C5CA1B5D280" Looks good. DS records are very rare in PowerDNS installations, let us kno

Re: [Pdns-users] 'localhost' domain aliases

2007-07-02 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 04:08:50AM -0700, Jelle Heemskerk wrote: > For what purpose are the 'localhost' domain aliases been used? Are they > required? Many people think they are. They don't usually hurt, so you can keep them around. There are DNS specialists on this list that can probably tell you

Re: Re: [Pdns-users] Cannot allocate memory

2007-07-02 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:11:43PM +0200, Schramm e.K. [ Deutschland ] wrote: > the problem comes again: Can you run: ps aux | grep pdns -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed source services

Re: Re: [Pdns-users] Cannot allocate memory

2007-07-02 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:27:01PM +0200, Schramm e.K. [ Deutschland ] wrote: > Jul 2 16:26:13 spider1 pdns[5303]: Exception: Unknown record was > stored incorrectly, need 3 fields, got 1: 87.118.110.17 > Jul 2 16:26:15 spider1 pdns[5303]: Exception: Unknown record was > stored incorrectly, need

Re: [Pdns-users] mplexer.hh missing ??

2007-07-03 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 09:45:38AM -0700, Eric Shubes wrote: > Hey all, pdns newbie here. > > I'm trying to build pdns-2.9.21 on CentOS5 using the tarball. I'm using > the following config: You can't build the recursor from the 2.9.21 tarball, which is what you are seeing. > Is mplexer.hh missin

Re: [Pdns-users] global wildcard for authoritative server

2007-07-04 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:44:14PM -0700, Joseph McDonald wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like powerdns to serve up a particular A record for all A queries > across all tlds, which would have otherwise been NXDOMAIN. Here is > how I do it with BIND: Joe, That setup in BIND will work on powerDNS as well,

Re: [Pdns-users] round robin pdns

2007-07-04 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 12:35:06AM +0200, Schramm e.K. [ Deutschland ] wrote: > circular > random > "hard given" PowerDNS by default does random, within the interval of the packet cache. For true random, turn off the packet cache (cache-ttl=0). > how will pdns handle the round robin queries? > i

Re: [Pdns-users] MyDNS to PowerDNS conversion script

2007-07-05 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:54:36AM +0200, Barry Kostjens wrote: > I wrote a php script to convert mydns sql tables to PowerDNS with gmysql > backend. Someone @ #powerdns asked me for it, and (alltough the code is > crap) I decided to share it. Thank you Barry! And just to clarify '#powerdns' is

Re: [Pdns-users] Failover A Record

2007-07-08 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:10:32AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am not sure this can be done or how. It can be done, but you need to do some work. Make a script that tests if your server is up, if it isn't, execute a SQL query to make the A record point somewhere else. > Is this possible,

Re: [Pdns-users] problem resolving domains...

2007-07-09 Thread bert hubert
Contacted you off-list. Thanks for your question. On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 06:44:19PM -0400, Matt Kelly wrote: > We're having a problem where no one using our dns servers can resolve > any domains. The person who was managing our power dns cluster has > not responded to our inquiries for help.

Re: [Pdns-users] Problems with NSD as slave to PowerDNS

2007-07-16 Thread bert hubert
> Jul 16 13:52:36 atpcz2pc pdns[29554]: 1 domain for which we are master needs > notifications > Jul 16 13:52:36 atpcz2pc pdns[29554]: Queued notification of domain > '7.0.3.e164.arpa' to 158.226.218.54 > Jul 16 13:52:37 atpcz2pc pdns[29554]: No question section in packet from > 158.226.218.54,

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS on FreeBSD: CPU Hungry?

2007-07-19 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:44:59PM -0600, Aaron Gifford wrote: > Things immediately slowed down. Painfully slow. And CPU usage climbed to > 70-80%. The test queries I did, those that didn't time out, worked, so > PowerDNS was in fact answering correctly for authoritative domains as well > as tal

Re: [Pdns-users] Re: dnsreplay "mostly correct"?

2007-07-22 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 11:40:06AM -0700, Augie Schwer wrote: > Never mind, sorry for the spam, they are different. :) Hehe - however, do try to use the newer 'dnsreplay' from svn, it is a lot more precise and actually has options. Bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, data

Re: [Pdns-users] Mailformed qdomain errors in syslog

2007-07-25 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 02:20:56PM +1000, Chris Seufert wrote: > Hey, > > is this normal for a production site? Yes, no reason to worry. > Jul 26 11:26:19 fred pdns[22307]: Received a malformed qdomain from > 66.179.175.2, '\\www.C-Cor.com.au': dropping -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open

[Pdns-users] NSATC.net microsoft problem last week - did you notice?

2007-08-03 Thread bert hubert
Hi everybody, Last week something strange happened with 'nsatc.net', the domain that powers many of Microsoft's services. This affected the PowerDNS Recursor, which caused 'windows update' to be unavailable for many users behind a PowerDNS Recursor. Did anybody analyse what happened exactly? By

Re: [Pdns-users] recursor required or not?

2007-08-04 Thread bert hubert
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 09:09:30PM +0200, Schramm e.K. [ Deutschland ] wrote: > Hi guys, > > i am a little bit confused at the moment of the following question: > > do i need a recursor or not? You only need a recursor if you have computers that want to use your IP address to gain information ab

Re: [Pdns-users] recursor required or not?

2007-08-04 Thread bert hubert
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 11:00:34PM +0200, Schramm e.K. [ Deutschland ] wrote: > >> zones: > >> 10 000 round about > > >These days this is what we call a 'small' powerdns installation :-) > > now i am very interested: > > what do you call "big installation" ? The biggest monolithic install I kno

Re: [Pdns-users] recursor required or not?

2007-08-05 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 11:14:27AM +0200, Rafa? Kupka wrote: > I have question about that. There is record: > cf.bankpracy.eu 3600IN CNAME m2m.money.pl > > Server is authoritative for bankpracy.eu but not for money.pl. This means that resolving nameservers will not believe anyt

Re: [Pdns-users] recursor can't refresh the . records

2007-08-09 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 09:46:35AM +0200, thomas polnik wrote: > Until yesterday I get follow message every 2 or 3 hours: > Aug 9 07:28:22 resolver01 pdns_recursor[20236]: Failed to update . > records, RCODE=2 Odd - I haven't seen this happen yet. Did you truly have 6 months of recursor uptime?

Re: [Pdns-users] recursor can't refresh the . records

2007-08-09 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:42:30PM +0200, thomas polnik wrote: > > You may want to try without the firewall. > > > > > without iptables is perhaps a bad idea :), but I will change it to > iptables -I INPUT 1 -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT > iptables -I INPUT 2 -p tcp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT This is

Re: [Pdns-users] recursor can't refresh the . records

2007-08-10 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 11:07:22PM +0200, thomas polnik wrote: > > Otherwise PowerDNS can't receive answers to the questions it is sending out! > Yes, this is correct, sorry, my mistake. If I would make this changes, I > would see it ... very fast :) But I understand this was not the case when yo

Re: [Pdns-users] CNAME answer problem?

2007-08-10 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 07:34:51AM +0200, Hannes M. wrote: > i have some strange problem with CNAME records to an external domain. > For example: This is a commonly observed oddity of the domain name system. Indeed, powerdns returns a 'servfail' if you ask it for www3.example.com, but it turns ou

Re: [Pdns-users] WG: Installing PowerDNS on Windows

2007-08-10 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:58:07PM +0200, Roman Agapkin wrote: > I'm trying to install PowerDNS on an WinXP SP2 machine. > but it doesnt work properly. The windows version is experimental. You have to use the 'godbc' backend, not the gmysql backend. We are very sorry that our Windows support is n

Re: [Pdns-users] CNAME answer problem?

2007-08-10 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 01:16:50PM +0200, Joyce LAMBERT wrote: > Do you know in witch RFC we can find this 'Algorithm', it seem that the > cname reply with servfail is a problem for some web hosting and for DNSSTUFF It is only a problem for 'DNSSTUFF'. This has been discussed on the IETF DNS work

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 05:55:51AM -0700, Augie Schwer wrote: > vote for a fix is to put a "me too" entry on the open ticket; that or > fix it yourself, which I think is easier said then done as most likely > the bug is in the DB backend code as it seems to be too greedy in what > it grabs. The pl

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 03:02:06PM +0200, bert hubert wrote: > The place to fix this is in the packethandler.cc, and not in the backend. > CNAME wildcards are complicated beasts and complicate the packethandler - > you could probably tweak that code to do what you want easily enough,

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 a

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 m

[Pdns-users] PowerDNS Training & Documentation Survey

2007-08-13 Thread bert hubert
o me while 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

Re: [Pdns-users] recursor unable to resolve asn.routeviews.org data

2007-08-18 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 12:42:56PM -0400, J Knight wrote: > After stumbling into the HACKING section of the Wiki, I find: > http://svn.powerdns.com/snapshots/ - but there's no 3.1.5 snapshot, > there's pre-relesase 3.1.4 snapshots only. > Is there another HTTP/FTP-accessible location? I've uploade

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
or software 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 Clo

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 tehn

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. R

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, Ma

Re: [Pdns-users] urlredirection in 2.9.21 not working (AXFR to slave)

2007-09-05 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 10:23:18AM +0200, Christian Kuehn wrote: > Bug Ticket #156, but no reaction. > > any ideas how to solve this problem in 2.9.21 ?? The issue is that the 'URL record' can't be transmitted over DNS/AXFR as it is since it is not a real DNS record - we invented it. This is

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. > > >

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 t

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. Certai

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 l

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 c

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

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] Problems Building PowerDNS

2007-09-19 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 04:58:44PM -0600, Lee Mehlhorn wrote: > I'm trying to build PowerDNS (2.9.21) from source and I'm having some > problems with it not finding the boost headers.. I've downloaded boost > and put it in /usr/local/boost and setup the BOOST_ROOT using export. I don't think we us

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 b

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. Th

Re: [Pdns-users] How to get PowerDNS to answer all requests with the same response...?

2007-09-25 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 02:10:37PM -0500, Jordan Young wrote: > First of all, to keep the trolls at bay, I am going to start by saying > that I am _NOT_ trying to recreate another Verisign fiasco. Well - I for one am not an Internet police officer. PowerDNS is technology, not a political platform.

Re: [Pdns-users] How to get PowerDNS to answer all requests with the same response...?

2007-09-25 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 02:10:37PM -0500, Jordan Young wrote: > I am sure people have gone through migrations that involved static IP > customers (near 600 in this case) and have had those (in this case the > majority of those) which did not make their changes. I figured that the > best way to acc

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 So

Re: [Pdns-users] Book ideas

2007-09-25 Thread bert hubert
I've spoken privately with Jan-Piet, and we wish him all the best with his book. Additionally, If other people or publishers also have plans for books or perhaps a chapter on PowerDNS, please contact us if you need more information. Regards, Bert Hubert PowerDNS On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at

Re: [Pdns-users] How to download Source code for windows.

2007-09-25 Thread bert hubert
Allen, Sadly there is no such recent version right now, but we are working on it. Bert On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 03:04:00PM +0100, Allen Allen wrote: > Dear PowerDNSSupporters, > I am trying to compile and build latest version of PowerDNS in my > windows XP. i followed Compilin

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 'ns9.ns14

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] SPF

2007-10-01 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 02:14:53AM +0200, Daniel wrote: > is pdns able to handle IN SPF records? Yes. But be aware, it needs the data to be between "quotes" in the database. Bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl

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 i

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 stops getting queries on Solaris 10 sparc

2007-10-08 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 07:14:17AM +0100, Alex Kiernan wrote: > > http://www.alexk1.demon.co.uk/patch-3.1.4 > > > > And against the current trunk: > > > > http://www.alexk1.demon.co.uk/patch-trunk > > > > I've 3 weeks of uptime now w/ this patch w/o problems. Many thanks Alex, I've committed this

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

2007-11-09 Thread bert hubert
resolved. Also thank 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

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 f

[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 http://neth

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. >

Re: [Pdns-users] This can't be right - DNS Load Test Results

2007-11-30 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 11:06:06AM -0800, Max Clark wrote: > I recently ran a series of dns load tests against various dns servers > and have been greatly surprised by the results > (http://www.clarksys.com/2007/11/20/dns_load_testing_results/) - in > this test PDNS was slightly faster than TinyDNS

[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 dr

Re: [Pdns-users] Problem with monitor

2007-12-05 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 03:40:28PM -0500, Aurelien de Beauchesne wrote: > I've just installed PowerDNS on my server. Bonjour! > monitor, i receive the Message "already running". But, below in the > manual, there are instruction to configure database connectivity. In > this paragraph, they ask m

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 ch

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS, Bind, and CLOSE_WAIT Problem

2007-12-12 Thread bert hubert
Do you perhaps have Exchange servers connecting to one of the servers, and not the other? Bert On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 12:06:32PM -0600, Ed McLain wrote: > Hello all.. I've got powerdns 2.9.21 running on 2 servers with bind running > as a backend resolver. My problem is that for some rea

Re: [Pdns-users] Frontend for PowerDNS ?!

2007-12-20 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:11:07PM +1000, Mark Constable wrote: > I'm going to start hacking on PowerAdmin and I'll make my > efforts available from a Git repo within a few weeks. I'm > not suggesting my hack will be in any way usable, just a > start at bringing that codebase up to my needs... Goo

Re: [Pdns-users] Problems using PipeBackend, always getting ANY requests...

2007-12-21 Thread bert hubert
Ben, Duane, This is not a bug. DNS queries are not backend queries - a DNS query is typically changed into a number of backend queries. As an optimization, PowerDNS always initially does an ANY query. This allows it to prevent the initial CNAME query, that is always needed. Backends should not i

Re: [Pdns-users] DS, CERT not working

2007-12-31 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:12:56PM -0800, Seth Mattinen wrote: > I've been experimenting with support for CERT, DS, etc. records in a new > pdns installation, but I can't get it to work. I'm using the generic > MySQL database with this data: Seth, This is a known problem in 2.9.21, sadly. Can y

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 b

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 Pow

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

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: t

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

2008-02-06 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:56:55PM +1100, Nicholas Orr wrote: > I want to run the following. Nicholas, The best way to do this is to run multiple copies of PowerDNS simultaneously. PowerDNS has easy support for this using the 'virtual' configuration feature. See http://doc.powerdns.com/virtual.h

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 comple

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! Ava

[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 w

[Pdns-users] Re: IPv6 testers wanted for snapshot4!

2008-02-11 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:58:52AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > This is quite dangerous. With a non-authoritative server, ANY only > returns what's in the cache which may be only the A or only the . That only hits mis-configured domains though that delegate to non-authoritative servers.

Re: [Pdns-users] Superslave configurations

2008-02-20 Thread bert hubert
R Libiez, Sadly superslave offers no removal abilities. This would require a more complete 'zone provisioning protocol' (zpp). While we would like to add that, we have no scheduled date for doing so. Good luck! On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:58:49AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a working

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