[Pdns-users] A few questions

[bert hubert]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:13:34PM +0100, Ben Merrills wrote:

> *	Zone2sql produces `A` and `CNAME` records with the name just as
> the sub domain, e.g. `www.mydom.com` the name field equals `www`, this
> is ok, I would have presumed, that's how bind has them, however, the
> queries that PowerDNS does wouldn't handle this, PowerDNS queries:
> 	*	www.mydom.com <http://www.mydom.com/> 
> 	*	mydom.com
> 	*	.com

I have no clue what you mean.

> *	PowerDNS seems to fail when you request a CNAME record for a
> domain, where the content isn't a domain defined within the same DNS
> server

This is correct behaviour for an authoritative-only nameserver. Configure
bind with 'recursion no' and it will do the same thing. The rationale is
that it failed to answer your question, as it only has an intermediate
answr.

> *	PowerDNS seems to ignore the fact that there may be a record for
> a domain on the DNS, and forward the request on to the recursor, even
> though the domain exists within the dns, and the SOA points to itself.

I don't understand what you mean.

Good luck.

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