[Pdns-users] Fwd: Re: Recursion when Powerdns auth servers is SOA

[Rory Toma]

I noticed I failed to reply to the list...


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Subject: 	Re: [Pdns-users] Recursion when Powerdns auth servers is SOA
Date: 	Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:56:13 -0800
From: 	Rory Toma <rory at ooma.com>
To: 	bert hubert <bert.hubert at netherlabs.nl>



On 1/10/12 2:48 PM, bert hubert wrote:
>
> On Jan 10, 2012, at 11:37 PM, Rory Toma wrote:
>
>> "To make sure that the local authoritative database overrides 
>> recursive information, PowerDNS first tries to answer a question from 
>> its own database. If that succeeds, the answer packet is sent back 
>> immediately without involving the recursor in any way. This means 
>> that for questions for which there is no answer, PowerDNS will 
>> consult the recursor for an recursive query, even if PowerDNS is 
>> authoritative for a domain! This will only cause problems if you 
>> 'fake' domains which don't really exist."
>>
>> What I want to do is have powerdns consult the recursor even of 
>> powerdns is authoritative for a domain. This is what I can' seem to 
>> get to work.
>
> I think we no longer do this, and that the documentation is in that 
> case out of date. It complicated things too badly.
>
> If you want to override the internet, you may have more success the 
> other way around, put a PowerDNS Recursor with specific authoritative 
> data as an auth server.
>
> Bert

I'll explain my problem in a little more detail, and then perhaps 
suggestions can flow:

We are using dns as a registration system. Devices contact a server and 
register, a dns record is created. For the sake of this discussion, I'll 
refer to this as old registration system (bind and old registration 
servers) and new registration system (powerdns and new server)

Many "apps" need to look up the information in dns, we have a keepalived 
fault tolerant IP address that points to a name server (currently bind), 
but we'd like to switch this to powerdns. However, we can't just switch 
all the dns records over at once, there has to be a transition period. 
So, we'd like to switch over to powerdns and new registration server. 
All new records will exist in powerdns. Eventually, all the old records 
will migrate as clients re-register.

So, when someone queries the new server, it needs to look up the data 
first in powerdns, and if it isn't there, recurse.

I tried putting the powerdns recursor in front. It did not work for me, 
as each backend server thinks it is authoritative. So if it happens to 
query that one first, it returns NXDOMAIN and never looks at the next 
one in the list.

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