Hi,<div><br></div><div>I realise this issue has been covered on the list, but (a) a couple of years ago, and (b) with slightly different symptoms.</div><div><br></div><div>On Amazon EC2, I have a PowerDNS server [1] set up for an example.local domain. I also have recursion enabled and set to the EC2 "virtual nameserver", 172.16.0.23. For simplicity's sake, this all runs on the same port.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Everything works as expected - example.local names resolve from the gmysql backend, and other names are passed on to Amazon for resolution. (You need to use the EC2 name server to resolve <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">.<a href="http://amazonaws.com">amazonaws.com</a> addresses to their RFC1918 addresses - if you resolve externally, you get the public IP which NATs to your machine.)</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">Anyway, </span>I have added a machine <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://database.xyzzy.eu-west-1.rds.amazonaws.com">database.xyzzy.eu-west-1.rds.amazonaws.com</a>, which is a multi-AZ deployment (60 second TTL for failover to a second server if the first is unreachable). I have set up a record for data.example.local which is a cname to this address, but querying it gives me an NXDOMAIN (/not/ a SERVFAIL).</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">I have seen mention that you need to have a '.' suffix for records pointing to external names, but this doesn't seem to make a difference.</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Can what I want to do here, be done? From what I can piece together, all I should have had to do is enable recursion (which was enabled anyway).</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Regards</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Craig</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br>
</span></font></div><div>[1] Version 2.9.22-3 from Ubuntu 10.04.</div>