[Pdns-users] AXFR

[Mark Scholten]

> > Hi,
> > I have 3 PowerDNS server, one master and two slave, which receiver
> > updated from the master through AXFR
> >
> > Everything is working ok, but I have two questions
> >
> > 1) There is a way do delete a domain on slave servers when I deleted
> > the domain on the master server?
> 
> You can do this manually or create a script for it, it isn't done by
default as
> AXFR doesn't have an option for it as far as I know.
> 
> > 2) When the master server send the notify (when I update a record for
> > example), it try to send to each authoritative server, which includes
> himself;
> > the transfer to slaves ends successfully, but the transfer to himself
> > no, because I do not enable slave on the master server. Which is the
> > right way
> to
> > do it?
> 
> I don't know this part, but can you mention the backend you are using with
> PowerDNS on the master? If it is *sql it might be possible to change a
query
> for it, but I never looked in the source to see if this is possible.
Others can
> probably answer this question.
> 
> Regards, Mark

Peter van Dijk provided the following URLs mentioning patches that might
solve your problem. If a system isn't a slave you can also set slave=no in
the PowerDNS configuration.
http://wiki.powerdns.com/trac/ticket/454
http://wiki.powerdns.com/trac/ticket/468

Regards, Mark