[Pdns-users] problems with superslave pdns

[Kenneth Marshall]

Just to allay any concerns you may have about your DB 
backend, we are using PostgreSQL similarly without any
problems.

Ken

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 01:49:44PM -0800, Eugene Pefti wrote:
> Hi Anton,
> 
> PDNS forum seems to be not very active whenever one asks for help. Moreover there's a tendency to criticize people's questions not directly related to pdns such as the front-end to it. 
> Getting back to your question I can share my setup but it is not exactly like yours. I have MySQL backend and two servers configured to be master and slave. Having setup MySQL Master-to-Slave replication I have all changes introduced to the master via pdnsadmin replicate immediately to the slave, namely its database. 
> I don't think the replication between pgsql differs in terms of setup. I don't have much of experience with Postgresql so my suggestion is to switch to MySQL as it is more tested and often used. By the way I didn't have any problems with MySQL replication for two boxes located far from each other.
> 
> Eugene
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pdns-users-bounces at mailman.powerdns.com [mailto:pdns-users-bounces at mailman.powerdns.com] On Behalf Of Anton - Valqk
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 8:18 AM
> To: Pdns-users at mailman.powerdns.com
> Subject: [Pdns-users] problems with superslave pdns
> 
> Hi there group,
> I've setuped a superslave pdns server that should fetch automatically 
> the newly added domains but nohting happens.
> 
> my master is 217.75.141.6 and the slave dns is ns1.hostit.bg.
> I have this record for supermaster:
> sqlite> select * from supermasters;
> 217.75.141.6|ns1.hostit.bg|internal
> 
> I've added a new domain into the master but it never showed up in the 
> logs or in the sqlite db.
> how can I debug why this happens?
> there is another problem,..
> I've inserted all the domains that were in the master pdns in the 
> records table, when I've first started the pdns it refreshed all the 
> domains,
> but after that from time to time I get:
> Feb 18 16:07:33 ns1 pdns[87710]: Domain interiorcity.net is fresh
> Feb 18 16:07:35 ns1 pdns[87710]: Error trying to retrieve/refresh 
> 'voigt-bg.com': Timeout waiting for answer from 217.75.141.6
> Feb 18 16:07:35 ns1 pdns[87710]: Domain arthotel-sbh.com is fresh
> Feb 18 16:07:35 ns1 pdns[87710]: Domain virtualboss.org is fresh
> Feb 18 16:07:36 ns1 pdns[87710]: Error trying to retrieve/refresh 
> 'radioyouth.eu': Timeout waiting for answer from 217.75.141.6
> Feb 18 16:07:36 ns1 pdns[87710]: Domain samsungwimax.com is fresh
> Feb 18 16:07:36 ns1 pdns[87710]: Domain bfc-bg.org is fresh
> Feb 18 16:07:36 ns1 pdns[87710]: Domain das.bg is fresh
> Feb 18 16:07:38 ns1 pdns[87710]: Error trying to retrieve/refresh 
> 'satelit-s.com': Timeout waiting for answer from 217.75.141.6
> Feb 18 16:07:39 ns1 pdns[87710]: Error trying to retrieve/refresh 
> 'globalestates.eu': Timeout waiting for answer from 217.75.141.6
> Feb 18 16:07:39 ns1 pdns[87710]: Domain profilexchange.org is fresh
> Feb 18 16:07:39 ns1 pdns[87710]: Domain 101dalmatinci.com is fresh
> 
> I'm running powerdns-2.9.21 on both places, the os is freebsd.
> on the master side it's using pgsql backend on the slave it's psql 
> because the conectivity between the machines is not so good so I can 
> setup pgsql replication,
> and the second machine is  a vm with 1 purpose - slave dns.
> 
> thanks in advance for the advices/ideas.
> 
> cheers,
> valqk.
> 
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