[Pdns-users] Problems using PipeBackend, always getting ANY requests...

[bert hubert]

Ben, Duane,

This is not a bug. DNS queries are not backend queries - a DNS query is
typically changed into a number of backend queries. As an optimization,
PowerDNS always initially does an ANY query.

This allows it to prevent the initial CNAME query, that is always needed.

Backends should not internally need to deal with CNAMEs, which is why
PowerDNS translates a query for an A record into an ANY query. If the ANY
query contains a CNAME, that CNAME is followed. If it contains an A query,
the answer is in.

The example Perl pipe backend included with PowerDNS contains logic that
implements the ANY query so it returns all records for the requested domain
name.

I hope this answers your question. In your case, simply return the NAPTR
record when an ANY query comes in.

Good luck!

On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 11:21:18AM +1100, Duane wrote:
> Ben Timms wrote:
> > I've been testing using the example script provided in the distribution
> > and I whatever I query it seems to come through as ANY...
> > 
> > i.e. 
> > 
> >     dig @localhost www.example.com <http://www.example.com>. NAPTR
> > 
> > returns
> > 
> >     20545 Received: Q       www.example.com <http://www.example.com>
> > IN      ANY     -1      127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>
> > 
> > I'm using Debian etch with powerdns version 2.9.20.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any advice for me?
> 
> I just started playing with this again as well and I'm hitting the same
> bug you found, I'm trying to debug it at present.
> 
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