[Pdns-users] Problem with Multihomed pdns server...

[Matthew Walker]

I've done as you suggested, and it seems to be working. Thanks for the help.

(Just used dnsreport.com to check it.. It works, and the report came up so
fast I almost fell out of my chair... Thanks for the great server!)

Mark Bergsma said:
> Matthew Walker wrote:
>> I've got a machine running pdns that has several aliased IP addresses on
>> one NIC. Two of them are used as nameserver IPs, and when I was running
>> BIND, that setup worked perfectly. Now, however, pdns listens on both
>> IPs, but only answers on one of them... This is causing problems. I've
>> included some 'dig' output below to illustrate the problem.
>
> [snip]
>
>> This is causing some problems with resolving domains, obviously, since
>> some clients apparently just sit and loop on the first IP address, and
>> don't listen to the response from the wrong address. Is there any way I
>> can fix this?
>
> I would suggest running two separate instances of pdns, one for each IP.
>   As either nameserver will only receive queries directed to a it's
> specific IP, it will use that IP to answer the queries.
>
> --
> Mark
>
> mark at nedworks.org
>
>
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