[Pdns-users] Record delegation to 3rd party NS

[ivan_i at vvpgroup.com]

Hi Aki,

dig @212.47.212.211 jabber.vvpgroup.com A

will NOT give you any answer about A record.

So you may get Info about NS serving jabber.vvpgroup.com, but you will not get info about A-record.

On 31.01.2013 13:29, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> Um.
>
> % dig @212.47.212.211 jabber.vvpgroup.com
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> jabber.vvpgroup.com.    300     IN      NS      ns3.p27.dynect.net.
> jabber.vvpgroup.com.    300     IN      NS      ns4.p27.dynect.net.
> jabber.vvpgroup.com.    300     IN      NS      ns1.p27.dynect.net.
> jabber.vvpgroup.com.    300     IN      NS      ns2.p27.dynect.net.
>
> This looks just fine to me.
>
> Aki
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 01:21:19PM +0400, ivan_i at vvpgroup.com wrote:
>> Hi Aki and James,
>>
>> Yes, now jabber.vvpgroup.com works, but that's because I've rolled back to old BIND9 installation.
>>
>> If you do "dig @212.47.212.211jabber.vvpgroup.com" you will see the real sad picture.
>>
>> It looks like gMySQL backend does not support record delegation to 3rd-party NS at all.
>> I mean gMySQL backend can resolve only its own records, if record is
>> outside MySQL, it will not be resolved by gMySQL backend.
>>
>> Currently I see only one way to deal with delegated records: create a pipe backend based
>> "resolver" that will resolve delegated records by directly querying DynECT servers.
>>
>> And James, yes, I've read documentation, my monkey-actions around zone types were
>> caused more by despair than by ignorance. Really :)
>>
>> Thanks for a great discussion, folks!
>>
>> On 30.01.2013 20:19, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>>> I checked with dig.
>>>
>>> ~$ dig jabber.vvpgroup.com
>>> jabber.vvpgroup.com.    54      IN      A       89.219.152.4
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> dig ns jabber.vvpgroup.com
>>> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>>> jabber.vvpgroup.com.    205     IN      NS      ns3.p27.dynect.net.
>>> jabber.vvpgroup.com.    205     IN      NS      ns1.p27.dynect.net.
>>> jabber.vvpgroup.com.    205     IN      NS      ns4.p27.dynect.net.
>>> jabber.vvpgroup.com.    205     IN      NS      ns2.p27.dynect.net.
>>>
>>> To me, this looks like everything works as expected. Except for this:
>>>
>>> ~$ dig soa jabber.vvpgroup.com
>>> vvpgroup.com.           60      IN      SOA     ns1.p27.dynect.net. admin.tzolkin.com. 1359347191 3600 600 604800 60
>>>
>>> Aki Tuomi
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 08:00:02PM +0400, ivan_i at vvpgroup.com wrote:
>>>> Dear friends,
>>>>
>>>> I do not use DNSSEC.
>>>> I've checked my database - it's consistent.
>>>> My real DNS name is jabber.vvpgroup.com
>>>>
>>>> I've switched my zone from NATIVE to MASTER and back with not effect.
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody use PowerDNS for record delegation to external NS at all?
>>>>
>>>> I've found some topics about NS delegations in PowerDNS, all unanswered. Looks sad :(
>>>>
>>>> On 29.01.2013 20:52, James Cloos wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> "iic" == ivan i at vvpgroup com<ivan_i at vvpgroup.com>    writes:
>>>>> iic>    | 31 | mydomain.com | NULL   |       NULL | NATIVE |            NULL | NULL    |
>>>>>
>>>>> Change that NATIVE to MASTER to permit AXFR mirroring to your
>>>>> secondaries.
>>>>>
>>>>> -JimC
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Best Regards
>>>> Ivan Ilves
>>>> Systems Architect
>>>> VVP Group
>>>> Phone: +7495 660 5795
>>>> GSM:   +7925 545 7440
>>>> Fax:   +7495 223 3400
>>>> ivan_i at vvpgroup.com
>>>> www.vvpgroup.com
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
>> -- 
>> Best Regards
>> Ivan Ilves
>> Systems Architect
>> VVP Group
>> Phone: +7495 660 5795
>> GSM:   +7925 545 7440
>> Fax:   +7495 223 3400
>> ivan_i at vvpgroup.com
>> www.vvpgroup.com
>>
>>

-- 
Best Regards
Ivan Ilves
Systems Architect
VVP Group
Phone: +7495 660 5795
GSM:   +7925 545 7440
Fax:   +7495 223 3400
ivan_i at vvpgroup.com
www.vvpgroup.com