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<p class="MsoNormal">You want me to post the TSIG keys?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Also, the DNS servers themselves are in a lab, behind a firewall. But I don’t see the relevance of specific domain names to my question.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Let me just ask the question a different way: What is the proper syntax for configuring TSIG when using the BIND backend?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Pdns-users] How to configure TSIG with BIND backend<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span class="pfptpreheader1"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white">Hi Michael, Can you provide full (unedited) config files please? A lot of info is missing to be able to help you fix this problem. Please see
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Can you provide full (unedited) config files please?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">A lot of info is missing to be able to help you fix this problem. Please see <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/blog.powerdns.com/2016/01/18/open-source-support-out-in-the-open/__;!!KwNVnqRv!XoMd8TaBnMokW9_jt6lK5qkk6JNfZz0qEo3ugMh0nBPhbPzQTP-lAGCxLuicwkNgVpw$">https://blog.powerdns.com/2016/01/18/open-source-support-out-in-the-open/</a> for
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">On 13 Nov 2021, at 20:00, Fox, Michael E. via Pdns-users <<a href="mailto:pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com">pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">I’m new to PowerDNS. I’m using the authoritative server with the BIND backend for some testing. (Don’t need power or complexity of a DB backend).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> 11.11.11.11 master</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">I’ve got a master and slave configured with three zones and doing zone transfers. Initially, I didn’t have TSIGs and have the following configured in pdns.conf on the master:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas;color:#24292E;background:white">Now I’d like to configure TSIG. But the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Consolas">instructions here seem
to be related to DB backends:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/tsig.html*tsig-provision-signed-notify-axfr__;Iw!!KwNVnqRv!XoMd8TaBnMokW9_jt6lK5qkk6JNfZz0qEo3ugMh0nBPhbPzQTP-lAGCxLuic75NZPWY$"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/tsig.html#tsig-provision-signed-notify-axfr</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">I’d like to stick to the BIND backend. But I get errors when trying the same type of configuration options in named.conf that work in regular BIND.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Here’s what I did:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">On the master:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">key “keyname” {</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> algorithm hmac-sha256;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> secret “…”;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">};</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">zone “zonename” {</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> file …;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> allow-transfer { 22.22.22.22 key “keyname”; };</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">On the slave:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">key “keyname” {</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> algorithm hmac-sha256;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> secret “…”;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">zone “zonename” {</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> file …;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> masters { 11.11.11.11 key “keyname”; }; <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Wingdings">ß</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Consolas">I
get a syntax error on this, even though it works in regular BIND.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">So, I changed the slave to:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> keys { “keyname”; };</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">zone “zonename” {</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> masters { 11.11.11.11 }; <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Wingdings">ß</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Consolas">no
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">And, in pdns.conf, I set “allow-axfr-ips” back to the default:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">But when I restart the slave, I get the following error: </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Unable to AXFR zone ‘zonename' from remote 11.11.11.11' (resolver): AXFR chunk error: Server Not Authoritative for zone / Not Authorized (This was the first time. Excluding zone
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