[Pdns-users] pdns slave

[ktm at rice.edu]

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:59:22AM +0200, Emiel van Berlo wrote:
> o.k. then why doesn't the slaved NS and MX records have this trailing
> dot in the powerdns database?
> 

The server adds them. You do not need to add a dot "." to every record
in a database, if the software can do it. It matches a user's experience
with browsers, e.g. http://www.google.com is what they enter and see
although the full correct DNS name ends with a dot ".".

Cheers,
Ken

> 
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Marc Haber <mh+pdns-users at zugschlus.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:17:24AM +0200, Emiel van Berlo wrote:
> >> The PowerDNS manual has a BIG warning that it's forbidden to have a
> >> trailing dot on domainnames.
> >
> > I guess that means the internal database format. To my understanding,
> > the period must be present in the DNS packet.
> >
> >> To my opinion, something goes wrong with the slave setup and the zone
> >> transfer, or the manual is outdated.
> >
> > I think you have misunderstood. When you directly write into the
> > databases, using a trailing period is contraproductive.
> >
> > Greetings
> > Marc
> >