[Pdns-users] Help! Various issues with DNS Settings (Mainly SOA)

[Napier James]

Hi All,

You'll have to excuse me if some of my questions are a bit  lame, but this
is the first time i have ever posted to this  mailing list, and i'm very new
to PDNS and quite new to DNS  Administration in general.

I have read through the docs but have been unable to find  any answers to
the following question:

What is the difference between the Generic MySQL and the  PDNS MySQL
backends? I will be performing replication using  MySQL, so as i understand,
i only need NATIVE support?


Also, I have just set up 2 DNS servers, identical in every  way, including
the powerdns database, but before i did that  i configured the SOA record on
my domain incorrectly on one  of the servers and it seems to have 'stuck'.
Please take a  look at the errors in the report below:

http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=dnsfusion.com

First i get a WARNING saying that my servers are reporting  different NS
records. As i said above, the database is now  exactly the same.

Second i get a FAIL saying that one of my name servers is  'lame' and is not
answering authoritivly for the zone (this  is ns2.dnsfusion.com) that it
appears to be complaining  about. What is all that about?

Thirdly i get a FAIL saying that my name servers do not  agree on the SOA
serial. The serial 1092858712 was what i  had listed on ns2.dnsfusion.com
before i deleted everything  and started again with an exact copy of the
database from  ns1.dnsfusion.com where the serial is 2004082001. 
After several restarts, it still does not seem to recognise that i have
changed the SOA serial to be exactly the same on both servers!

All help is greatly appreciated, and if you are a PHP coder  with PowerDNS
experience, let me know because i might be  able to put some work your
way!!!

Thanks
James



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