[Pdns-users] Hi. How to test DNS when not authoritative?

[Derrick MacPherson]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 22:18 +0200, bert hubert wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 01:15:10PM -0700, Alan Hodgson wrote:
> > On April 10, 2006 01:12 pm, Derrick MacPherson <dmacpher at vfs.com> wrote:
> > > How can I test DNS when it says I'm not authoritative for the domain?
> > > I'm just setting up powerdns and I"ve not moved DNS services yet, but
> > > would like to test to make sure all is working as need be on the new DNS
> > > server..
> > >
> > 
> > dig @new.server.ip +norecurse query 

dig @204.244.50.133 +norecurse ian.studiobproductions.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> @204.244.50.133 +norecurse
ian.studiobproductions.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 52808
;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ian.studiobproductions.com.    IN      A

;; Query time: 3 msec
;; SERVER: 204.244.50.133#53(204.244.50.133)
;; WHEN: Mon Apr 10 13:24:17 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 44

messages say: 

Apr 10 13:24:17 mail pdns[50638]: Not authoritative for
'ian.studiobproductions.com', sending servfail to 204.244.50.133

Is it possible that it's not loading the domain from mysql? I don't see
any errors, but am not sure, on startup I do see:

Apr 10 13:29:59 mail pdns[50973]: This is module gmysqlbackend.so
reporting

So I assume it is loading ok