[Pdns-users] Pre-release of 3.1 available: Authoritative Serving, Windows, Complete IPv6 support, Bugs Fixed

[Gerhard Gaußling]

Am Sonntag, 7. Mai 2006 22:09 schrieb bert hubert:
> I noticed, that the webinterface doesn't
>
> > log messages, only some startup information. Is this due
> > to "rec_channel is still missing", or because I switched logging
> > into the "nt event log" ON when registering as a service? Sorry,
> > but I don't know much about pdns and name servers...
>
> Hmm, well, I'm a bit confused what you mean here, the recursor
> doesn't have a "webinterface". There might not be a log of other
> information to log.

The webinterface (of pdns) simply is logging nothing:

PDNS 2.9.15-WIN32 Main Page 
Uptime: 13 minutes Queries/second, 1, 5, 10 minute averages: 0, 0, 0. 
Max queries/second: 0 
Backend query load, 1, 5, 10 minute averages: 0, 0, 0. Max 
queries/second: 0 
Total queries: 0. Question/answer latency: 0ms 
 
Top-10 of 5: Log Messages 
Reset	Resize: 10 100 500 1000 (10000) 500000 
godbc Connection succesful	4	50% 
About to create 3 backend threads	1	13% 
Creating backend connection for TCP	1	13% 
Done launching threads, ready to distribute questions	1	13% 
Launched webserver on 127.0.0.1:8081	1	13% 
Total:	8	100% 
 
Top-10 of 0: Queries for existing records, but for type we don't have 
Reset	Resize: 10 100 500 1000 (10000) 500000 
Total:	0	100% 
[...]
everything else  is Total:	0	100% 
[...]
Variables 
corrupt-packets	0	Number of corrupt packets received 
[...] everything is 0



I reinstalled the service with these options:

C:\Program Files (x86)\PowerDNS>pdns --register-service --config-dir="C:
\Program Files (x86)\PowerDNS" 
This is module godbcbackend reporting 
This is module gsqlite reporting 
 
Event Type:	Information 
Event Source:	PowerDNS 
Event Category:	None 
Event ID:	1 
Date:		08.05.2006 
Time:		00:12:19 
User:		N/A 
Computer:	X64-X86-WINXP 
Description: 
PowerDNS 2.9.15-WIN32 (C) 2001-2003 PowerDNS.COM BV (Jan 30 2004, 
03:33:58) starting up 
[...]

TResolving names works:

C:\Program Files (x86)\dig>dig +short  google.de @localhost 
216.239.59.104 
216.239.39.104 
216.239.57.104 
 

Event Log: 
 
  
Event Type:	Information 
Event Source:	PowerDNS 
Event Category:	None 
Event ID:	1 
Date:		07.05.2006 
Time:		23:38:37 
User:		N/A 
Computer:	X64-X86-WINXP 
Description: 
PowerDNS 2.9.15-WIN32 (C) 2001-2003 PowerDNS.COM BV (Jan 30 2004, 
03:33:58) starting up 
[...]
PowerDNS recursor 3.1-pre1 (C) 2001-2006 PowerDNS.COM BV (May  6 2006, 
23:13:10, MSVC 1400) starting up 
[...]
PowerDNS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and 
you are welcome to redistribute it according to the terms of the GPL 
version 2. 
 
Event Type:	Warning 
Event Source:	PowerDNS Recursor 
Event Category:	None 
Event ID:	2 
Date:		07.05.2006 
Time:		23:38:37 
User:		N/A 
Computer:	X64-X86-WINXP 
Description: 
Operating in 32 bits mode 
[...]
Only allowing queries from: 127.0.0.0/8, 10.0.0.0/8, 192.168.0.0/16, 
172.16.0.0/12 
[...]
Inserting rfc 1918 private space zones 
[...]
Listening for UDP queries on 127.0.0.1:53 
[...]
Listening for TCP queries on 127.0.0.1:53 
[...]
Done priming cache with root hints 
[...] 
Enabled 'select' multiplexer 
[...]
stats: 1 questions, 14 cache entries, 0 negative entries, -2147483648% 
cache hits 
[...]
stats: throttle map: 0, ns speeds: 0 
[...]
stats: outpacket/query ratio -2147483648%, -2147483648% throttled, 0 
no-delegation drops 
[...]
stats: 0 outgoing tcp connections, 2 queries running, 0 outgoing 
timeouts 
[...]
[1] question for '.|A' from 127.0.0.1 
[...]
[1] answer to question '.|A': 0 answers, 0 additional, took 1 packets, 0 
throttled, 0 timeouts, 0 tcp connections, rcode=0 
[...]
[2] question for 'download15.avast.com.|A' from 127.0.0.1 

[...] 
[45] answer to question 'google.|A': 0 answers, 0 additional, took 0 
packets, 0 throttled, 0 timeouts, 0 tcp connections, rcode=3 
[...]
[46] question for 'google.de.|A' from 127.0.0.1 
[...]
[46] answer to question 'google.de.|A': 3 answers, 0 additional, took 1 
packets, 0 throttled, 0 timeouts, 0 tcp connections, rcode=0


So, it's logged into the eventlog, but not in the database of the 
webinterface.

The webinterface is still empty.

regards

Gerhard