[Pdns-users] PowerDNS Delegation (SmartConnect Isilon)

[Drew Decker]

Ken,

Yea - I don't think this will work for us.  Our domain is shared with the
Isilon, so it would be lab.domain.com, and I don't want to forward the
entire zone over to the Isilon.

thanks!


On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:57 PM, ktm at rice.edu <ktm at rice.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 01:18:40PM -0600, Drew Decker wrote:
> > We are currently wanting to implement Isilon's SmartConnect features,
> which
> > requres a delegation (NS) record to the Isilon.  Unfortunately, their
> > documentation only covers BIND and Microsoft DNS products.  Is there a
> way
> > to do the same thing in PowerDNS?  If so, what is the correct way?
> >
> > Per the documentation, it shows the following for BIND:
> >
> > -----
> > BIND server:
> > In BIND, a new name server (NS) record needs to be added to the existing
> > authoritative DNS zone specifying the server of authority for the new
> > sub-zone. For
> > that, an A record must be added, specified in the NS record that points
> to
> > the SIP
> > address of the cluster. For example, if the SmartConnect zone name is
> > cluster.example.com, the DNS entries would looks like:
> >
> > >> cluster.example.com IN NS sip.example.com
> > >> sip.example.com IN A {IP"address}
> > -----
> >
> > Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to work on our end - it says "hostname
> not
> > found" - but all other DNS records work for the parent domain on our end
> -
> > it is just this one that is not working.  Please let me know if you'd
> like
> > me to provide more information on the setup of our PowerDNS servers.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best Regards,
> > Drew Decker
>
> Hi Drew,
>
> We do this in the recursor, not in the authoritative server, with
> pdns-recursor
> using the forward-zones option. For your example, it would be a line
> something
> like this:
>
> forward-zones=cluster.example.com={IP address}
>
> Regards,
> Ken
>



-- 
Best Regards,
Drew Decker
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