[Pdns-users] Proper response to PING on pipe backend.

[Christian Hofstaedtler]

> On 26 Feb 2015, at 08:11, xxsyys <geirskjo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am implementing a pipe backend for pdns.
> 
> What is the proper response to the "PING" command? The documentation at
> https://doc.powerdns.com/md/authoritative/backend-pipe/#pipebackend-protocol
> does not say. 
> 
> I would assume it is "PONG" but the list of acceptable answer tags does not
> contain PONG, leading me to belive it would be either just 
> END
> or
> DATA\tPONG
> END

The documentation says nothing about a reply to PING, because it doesn’t say anything about PING in the first place.

PING is not a command/query for pipebackend coprocesses.


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