[Pdns-users] pgsql db lookup failures

bert hubert bert.hubert at netherlabs.nl
Thu Jul 14 14:51:33 UTC 2011


This issue has been addressed in build 2234 which has just been published on
http://powerdnssec.org/downloads

Can you test?

Thanks to Peter van Dijk for additional debugging.

	Bert

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 07:54:59PM +0200, bert hubert wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> This issues has been turned into a blocker for the 3.0-final release. Could
> you open a ticket to that effect on http://wiki.powerdns.com/ ?
> 
> Please follow the signup instructions carefully!
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 	Bert
> 
> On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 05:24:11PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Jul 2011, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> > 
> > >On 07/01/2011 02:08 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> > >>Hello,
> > >>
> > >>I'm in the middle of testing a new powerdns/postgres setup in native
> > >>mode with postgres replication.  I've not run into any major issues so
> > >>far, but I'm seeing some odd behavior on the last server I setup.
> > >>
> > >>I started powerdns, and after that had stopped and started postgres a
> > >>few times to make some config changes.  It seems like powerdns is not
> > >>dealing with the disappearing postgres process, almost as if the backend
> > >>connection has not attempted a reconnect:
> > >>
> > >>Jun 30 19:46:07 ns3 pdns[1569]: Database module reported condition which
> > >>prevented lookup (PostgreSQL failed to execute command: FATAL:
> > >>terminating connection due to administrator command server closed the
> > >>connection unexpectedly     This probably means the server terminated
> > >>abnormally     before or while processing the request. ) sending out
> > >>servfail
> > >
> > >this indicates that somebody sent the PostgreSQL backend handing the
> > >connection a -TERM signal  to drop the connection, this has been caused
> > >in the past by broken linux kernel OOM killers or weird admin scripts
> > >sending random signals to random processes based on memory or cpu usage.
> > >It does not at all seem to relate powerdns directly at all...
> > 
> > Oh, it was certainly me.  I had to restart Postgres to pick up some
> > config changes.  The problem I'm having is that until I restart
> > PowerDNS, it doesn't reconnect when Postgres is again available.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Charles
> > 
> > >
> > >Stefan
> > >
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