[Pdns-users] Seriious bug with PowerDNS and sql server dropping.

[Eric Renfro]

Norbert Sendetzky wrote:

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>On Monday 13 September 2004 11:54, Eric Renfro wrote:
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>>If the PostgreSQL server PowerDNS is setup to connect to drops, reloads,
>>temporary loss of connection, etc, for whatever reason, PowerDNS looses
>>it's connection to the database, it stops completely. This is kind of a
>>fairly serious bug.
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>The behaviour is backend specific. Some backends implement connection failure
>recovery, others don't. I've done that for the ldap backend but I think that
>most of the sql backends don't do it if it isn't done already in the client
>library.
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>The fix is to throw an exception if the connection is unavailable. The backend
>will then be recreated automatically by pdns.
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Hmm.. I see. But, I don't know how to do that. I'm not a C programmer at 
all.

Eric