[Pdns-users] Wilcard woes

[Ron Garret]

Here's a reproduction of the problem using a clean build of 2.9.22:

[ron at vm1:~/pkg/pdns-2.9.22/pdns]$ cat pdns.conf
launch=gmysql
gmysql-host=127.0.0.1
gmysql-user=XXXX
gmysql-password=XXXX
gmysql-dbname=pdns

wildcards=yes


mysql> select * from records where domain_id=2;
+----+-----------+-----------+------+--------------+------+------+-------------+
| id | domain_id | name      | type | content      | ttl  | prio | change_date |
+----+-----------+-----------+------+--------------+------+------+-------------+
| 10 |         2 | *.mcia.cc | A    | 67.201.56.75 |  120 | NULL |        NULL | 
| 18 |         2 | mcia.cc   | A    | 67.201.56.75 |  120 | NULL |        NULL | 
+----+-----------+-----------+------+--------------+------+------+-------------+


[ron at vm1:~/pkg/pdns-2.9.22/pdns]$ ./pdns_server --version
Version: 2.9.22, compiled on Jan  7 2010, 00:17:29 with gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)



ron at vm1:~/pkg/pdns-2.9.22/pdns]$ sudo ./pdns_server --config-dir=.
Jan 07 01:50:13 Reading random entropy from '/dev/urandom'
Jan 07 01:50:13 This is a standalone pdns
Jan 07 01:50:13 Listening on controlsocket in '/var/run/pdns.controlsocket'
Jan 07 01:50:13 It is advised to bind to explicit addresses with the --local-address option
Jan 07 01:50:13 UDP server bound to 0.0.0.0:53
Jan 07 01:50:13 TCP server bound to 0.0.0.0:53
Jan 07 01:50:13 PowerDNS 2.9.22 (C) 2001-2009 PowerDNS.COM BV (Jan  7 2010, 00:17:29, gcc 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) starting up
Jan 07 01:50:13 PowerDNS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it according to the terms of the GPL version 2.
Jan 07 01:50:13 Creating backend connection for TCP
Jan 07 01:50:13 gmysql Connection succesful
Jan 07 01:50:13 About to create 3 backend threads for UDP
Jan 07 01:50:13 gmysql Connection succesful
Jan 07 01:50:13 gmysql Connection succesful
Jan 07 01:50:13 gmysql Connection succesful
Jan 07 01:50:13 Done launching threads, ready to distribute questions
Jan 07 01:50:48 gmysql Connection succesful


[ron at vm1:/var/log]$ host mcia.cc localhost
mcia.cc has address 67.201.56.75
Host mcia.cc not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
Host mcia.cc not found: 2(SERVFAIL)

[ron at vm1:/var/log]$ host foo.mcia.cc localhost
Host foo.mcia.cc not found: 2(SERVFAIL)


(Why am I getting two servfails for the successful query?)

This is the output from pdns_server during those queries:


Jan 07 01:50:48 Not authoritative for 'mcia.cc', sending servfail to 67.201.32.11
Jan 07 01:50:48 Not authoritative for 'mcia.cc', sending servfail to 67.201.32.11
Jan 07 01:50:52 Not authoritative for 'foo.mcia.cc', sending servfail to 67.201.32.11


I can't for the life of me figure out what I'm doing wrong here.

(Is anyone actually reading these messages?)

rg