[Pdns-users] Disable slave seems impossible

[Aki Tuomi]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 06:44:54AM +0300, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 07:32:00PM +0300, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 02:46:59PM +0200, Giuseppe Ravasio wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I'm setting up two PowerDNS authoritative servers (Let's say ONE and
> > > TWO) with MySQL backend and replication in Master-Master mode.
> > > 
> > > - 99% of domains will be in native mode
> > > - some domains need to be in Master mode because they also have other NS
> > > records or are hidden primary
> > > - some domains need to be in Slave mode, because the customer is running
> > > the master
> > > 
> > > Therefore I set on ONE:
> > > master = yes
> > > slave = no
> > > 
> > > And on TWO:
> > > master = yes
> > > slave = yes
> > > only-notify=127.0.0.1
> > > 
> > > I set the only-notify because I do not need TWO to notify third party
> > > DNS servers when acting as master.
> > > 
> > > It's all working fine except from the fact that also ONE tries to get
> > > updated zones for the domains configured as SLAVE, even if I've put in
> > > the config slave = no.
> > > 
> > > I'm missing something?
> > > Setting "slave = no" isn't supposed to make pdns ignore all the records
> > > with type set as SLAVE?
> > > 
> > 
> > Setting slave=no disables slave *functionality*, it does not ignore domains.
> > you probably should put them into a separate database, I'm pretty sure
> > it will do what you expect this way.
> > 
> 
> Looking at 3.4.5 sources, setting slave=no disables notification processing.
> Unfortunately it seems not to disable slaveRefresh, which it should. This is
> imo a bug.
> 
> Aki
> 

If you are interested, you can try

https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/pull/2705.diff

and commit there whether it works for you or not. This would help tremendously.

Aki