[Pdns-users] Behavior when asking for out-of-zone queries

[Peter van Dijk]

Hi Marc,

On Nov 16, 2011, at 13:39 , Marc Haber wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:44:54PM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote:
>> Ideally, a reproduction includes:
>> 1. pcap of client<>recursor
>> 2. pcap of recursor<>autos
>> 3. pdns trace log
>> 
>> 1 is mostly for convenience, but without 2 or 3, debugging is almost impossible.
> 
> The trace log is going to be the hard thing, as restarting the DNS
> server usually fixes the issue. Or is it possible to enable tracing in
> a running server?

No, not currently.

> Are you referring to the trace log of the recursor or the trace log of
> the authoritative server? Heck, I don't even know whether the
> authoritative server _has_ a trace facility.

recursor. Auth does not have trace (it does have query-logging and some other nifty things).

Kind regards,
Peter van Dijk