[Pdns-users] External CNames

[andreas]

I was just curious to ask why you use cname to extrenal sources, you're 
internal
pdns would not be authoritative to you external bind installation and would 
end up quaite strange.
It sound much easier to make a zone transfer between them.
sorry to interfere this discussion but i have to ask


One more thing, if you set up things like you did, with a cname and all 
that. It sound strange
that you need the ending dot. My experience with mysql backend is that the 
ending dot is not nessesery and pdns will cope very well with out it. But on 
other hand could this be OS related or wich version of pdns you run, and 
probably something for pdns staff to put their teeth in to.






Hello all,

I checked this in with our PDNS

if we have an external CNAME then we have to write the content with a dot in 
the end,
for internal cnames this doen't work there you must write the content 
without a dot.

Can anybody confirm this behaivor ?

Regards
Marco

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 04:24:44PM -0000, Ian Mordey wrote:
> Thanks. Problem solved.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Devine [mailto:fxmulder at gmail.com]
> Sent: 02 March 2010 16:14
> To: Ian Mordey
> Cc: pdns-users at mailman.powerdns.com
> Subject: Re: [Pdns-users] External CNames
>
> yes, we are using gmysql and we had a blank entry in the records table
> which was taken to be '.' so powerdns thought it was authoritative for
> '.', once we removed that entry we are now sending a status of
> SERVFAIL instead of NXDOMAIN.
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Ian Mordey <ian.mordey at griffin.com> wrote:
> > James
> > Did you ever get an answer to this question? We have the same issue..
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ian
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pdns-users-bounces at mailman.powerdns.com
> > [mailto:pdns-users-bounces at mailman.powerdns.com] On Behalf Of James
> > Devine
> > Sent: 23 February 2010 16:58
> > To: pdns-users at mailman.powerdns.com
> > Subject: [Pdns-users] External CNames
> >
> > I have a powerdns setup with a mysql backend, if I have a 3rd level
> > host CNAMEd to an external domain, it answers but the status is
> > NXDOMAIN, if it CNAMEs to a domain for which it is authoritative for
> > it returns NOERROR.  The recursor that powerdns is configured with is
> > an external bind recursor which can resolve the external domains fine.
> >  Any idea where I might be going wrong?
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