[Pdns-users] Geo-backend

[hirantha]

Francisco Puente wrote:
> Thanks Hirantha!
> 
> I've got it half working with your comments :)
> 
> I still think I'm missing something:
> =======================================================
>  > www1.test.com
> Server:         xxx.xxx.xxx.44
> Address:        xxx.xxx.xxx.44#53
> 
> www1.test.com   canonical name = www1.geo.test.com.
> www1.geo.test.com       canonical name = geo.test.com.
>  > www1.test.com
> Server:         xxx.xxx.xxx.44
> Address:        xxx.xxx.xxx.44#53
> 
> www1.test.com   canonical name = www1.geo.test.com.
> www1.geo.test.com       canonical name = geo.test.com.
>  > www1.geo.test.com
> Server:         xxx.xxx.xxx.44
> Address:        xxx.xxx.xxx44#53
> 
> www1.geo.test.com       canonical name = geo.test.com.
> =======================================================
> 
> It's getting better :)
> 
> Another thing: what happend if client coutry code is not listed in the 
> zone? get's no IP at all, I've tested it.
Try this.

add catch all entry to the /geo-maps/www1
# Catch ALL
0 ca.test.com.

And point ca.test.com to your web server IP address in your test.com zone file
ca.test.com.	A	192.168.100.5

Hope this is helpful.

Good luck
-> Hirantha
> 
> Gan't get the IP adress yet for www1 (I'm not using www)
> 
> Ideas are VERY welcome!!
> 
> Thanks
> Francisco
> 
> hirantha wrote:
>> Hello Francisco,
>>
>> Francisco Puente wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Anyone succeeded installing PowerDNS + Geo-Backend?
>>
>> yes
>>>
>>> I'm migrating from Bind to PowerDNS but I need to get Geo working...
>>>
>>> I'm using "launch=bind,geo" at pdns.conf, starts OK:
>>
>> I was used launch=gmysql,geo
>>
>>>
>>> ...
>>> Nov 26 06:04:39 Set effective group id to 103
>>> Nov 26 06:04:39 Set effective user id to 100
>>> Nov 26 06:04:39 Creating backend connection for TCP
>>> Nov 26 06:04:39 [bindbackend] Parsing 2 domain(s), will report when done
>>> Nov 26 06:04:39 [bindbackend] Warning! Skipping 'hint' zone '.'
>>> % Nov 26 06:04:39 [bindbackend] Done parsing domains, 0 rejected, 1 
>>> new, 0 removed
>>> Nov 26 06:04:39 [geobackend] Parsing IP map zonefile
>>> Nov 26 06:04:40 [geobackend] Finished parsing IP map zonefile: added 
>>> 65494 prefixes, stored in 163454 nodes using 1961448 bytes of memory
>>> Nov 26 06:04:40 [geobackend] Parsing director map 
>>> /usr/local/etc/geo-maps
>>> Nov 26 06:04:40 [geobackend] Finished parsing 1 director map files, 0 
>>> failures
>>> Nov 26 06:04:40 About to create 3 backend threads for UDP
>>> Nov 26 06:04:40 Done launching threads, ready to distribute questions
>>> ....
>>>
>>> but geo is not working for me (nslookup):
>>>  > www1.test.com
>>> Server:         xxx.xxx.xxx.44
>>> Address:        xxx.xxx.xxx.44#53
>>>
>>> www1.test.com   canonical name = geo.test.com.
>>> ================================================
>>> and the bind zone:
>>>
>>> $ORIGIN .
>>> $TTL 10800      ; 3 hours
>>> test.com.       IN      SOA     ns.test.com. admin.test.com. (
>>>                        2008020400   ; Serial
>>>                        10800           ; Refresh after 3 hours
>>>                        3600            ; Retry after 1 hour
>>>                        604800          ; Expire after 1 week
>>>                        86400 )         ; Minimum TTL of 1 day
>>> test.com.       IN      NS      ns.test.com.
>>>
>>> test.com.               IN      MX      1       mx.test.com.
>>> test.com.               IN      MX      5       mx2.test.com.
>>>
>>> www.test.com.           IN      A       192.168.100.5
>>> ns.test.com.           IN      A       192.168.100.10
>>> mx.test.com.          IN      A       192.168.100.20
>>> mx2.test.com.         IN      A       192.168.100.21
>>> mail.test.com.          IN      CNAME   mx.test.com.
>>                    ^ This is not a good thing as I know.
>>>
>>> www1.test.com.          IN      CNAME   geo.test.com.
>> This is how I did.
>> www.test.com.        IN    CNAME    www.geo.test.com.
>> geo.test.com.        NS    ns1.test.com. (assuming ns1 is the pdns 
>> server)
>> sa.geo.test.com.    A    192.168.100.40
>> eu.geo.test.com.    A    192.168.100.50
>>
>>
>> cat /usr/local/powerdns/etc/geo-maps/www1
>> $RECORD www1
>> $ORIGIN geo.test.com.
>> #eu
>> 840 eu
>> #sa
>> 356 sa
>>
>> 840 and 356 are bogus values and this is working for me as expected.
>> Hope this is helpful.
>>
>> Regards
>> Hirantha
>> >
>>
>>> pdns.test.com.          IN      A       xxx.xxx.xxx.44
>>> geo.test.com.           IN      NS      pdns.test.com.
>>>
>>> sa.iso.test.com.                        IN A 192.168.100.40
>>> sa.iso.test.com.                        IN A 192.168.100.41
>>>
>>> eu.iso.test.com.                        IN A 192.168.100.50
>>> eu.iso.test.com.                        IN A 192.168.100.51
>>>
>>> Anyone can help? is there any good how-to about this?
>>>
>>> The test.com is of course fake, not real IP's, just a test 
>>> environment prior to migrate bind.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>> Francisco
>>>
>>>
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