[Pdns-users] Nameservers are same domain as a domain that uses them - subdomains don't work!

[Kenneth Marshall]

The only slightly "odd" setting in my config is:

out-of-zone-additional-processing=yes

Ken

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 01:31:48PM -0400, Brandon Aubie wrote:
> Hi Ken et al.,
>
> Yeah, I thought it would work too.  Notice in Duane's post that when you 
> dig for an A record, PowerDNS is returning the SOA record.
>
> the mysportsite.com domain record has NS records so wouldn't those 
> propagate to any subdomains defined in that record?
>
> Could there be any weird pdns.conf settings I need to use when your 
> nameservers are the same domain that uses them?
>
> Kenneth Marshall wrote:
>> Brandon,
>>
>> I think that any subdomain will need NS and SOA records.
>> You should be able to define A records in your parent domain
>> without these:
>>
>> NS mydomain.com ns1.mydomain.com
>> A turkey.mydomain.com in domain mydomain.com
>> A turkey.chicken.mydomain.com in domain mydomain.com
>>
>> It works for me with v 2.9.20.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:54:14PM -0400, Brandon Aubie wrote:
>>   
>>> Ok,
>>>
>>> For example, blog.mysportsite.com is entered as an A record of "blog" in 
>>> the mysportsite.com zone and it won't resolve.
>>> However, help.mysportsite.com is entered as a whole domain zone on it's 
>>> own and it resolves.
>>>
>>> I'll look into the TTL record.  I seem to remember seeing 120 in the PDNS 
>>> manual?
>>>
>>>
>>> On 28-Apr-08, at 12:46 PM, Duane wrote:
>>>
>>>     
>>>> Brandon Aubie wrote:
>>>>       
>>>>> Ok, I changed the NS ttl to 14400 but do you think that is even 
>>>>> related?
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>         
>>>> Without knowing what another domain is to check all I can do is point
>>>> out problems with the domain you have mentioned.
>>>>
>>>> Such as your TTLs are still way too low for most records:
>>>>
>>>> www.mysportsite.com.	120	IN	A	67.222.128.44
>>>>
>>>> Absolute minimum TTL recommended is at least 180 seconds.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>>
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>>>> Duane
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