[Pdns-users] NOTIFY FAILURE!

[bert hubert]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 12:44:39PM +0000, Ale ***** wrote:
> 
> Hello to all, I'm a newbie about PowerDNS. On a first machine
> (192.168.0.1) I have PowerDNS act as master that use mysql(gmysql) backend
> and on another machine (192.168.0.2) bind9 act as slave. So I have setup
> both PowerDNS and bind9 for this purpose and I execute both bind9 and
> powerdns monitor. All seems work perfectly! There's an AXFR zone-transfer
> to the slave (192.168.0.2) and the Resource Record's file was created.
> However, there's a problem, for example, when I add a RR on master and
> increment the serial for the slave update.

Can you tell me what the problem is? In other words, what does not work but
should work?

> 1) Initial situations
> ------+-------------------+-------.-+--------------+-----------+-----------------+---------+
> | id   | name                | master | last_check   | type        | notified_serial | account |
> +----+-------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+-----------------+---------+
> |  6   | torvergata.local | NULL    |       NULL    | MASTER  |               0     | NULL    |
> +----+-------------------+---------+--------------+-----------+-----------------+---------+
> 
> 2) Update the serial : update domains set notified_serial=1 where id=6;

This is not how to update the serial - you do that via the SOA record!
Notified_serial is what PowerDNS uses internally.

> Jan 25 07:00:23 Queued notification of domain 'torvergata.local' to 192.168.0.2
> Jan 25 07:00:24 Received NOTIFY for torvergata.local from 192.168.0.1 but slave support is disabled in the configuration

PowerDNS notifies itself, but that is not generally a problem. Merely
sloppy.

	Bert

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