[Pdns-users] powerdns internals

[Martin]

Hi,

It is somewhat helpful but doesn't solve my issues. I understand that to 
return NXDOMAIN my queries should not return data, but how can I do that 
when Powerdns uses ANY queries to fetch the data all the time? The only 
query types that I see in the MySQL logs are SOA, NS and ANY. If there 
are no MX records for abc.example.com but there is an A record for 
abc.example.com, my ANY query is never able to return 0 rows. As I said, 
in that case I would expect Powerdns to filter out nonrelevant records.

FWIW, here's the order of queries in the MySQL logs when, for example, I 
query a nonexistent TXT record for abc.example.com . I have only listed 
queries relevant for the backend the domain example.com is in, since the 
other backend successfully returns no data at all for that domain.

type='SOA' AND domain='abc.example.com' => returns nothing
type='SOA' AND domain='example.com' => returns 1 SOA record
type='NS' => returns nothing (I'm not sure where this query is coming 
from because it resembles one of my custom queries but it is definitely 
not one of them?)
ANY-ID query for abc.example.com => returns 1 row that contains an A 
record
PRESIGNED metadata query => returns nothing
NSEC3PARAM metadata query => returns nothing
type='SOA' AND domain='example.com' => returns 1 SOA record
ANY-ID query for example.com => returns TXT record, 2 NS records, SOA 
record and an A record
SOA-EDIT metadata query => returns nothing

Martin


On 30-10-2015 17:29, bert hubert wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 04:07:13PM +0100, Martin wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have a question about how Powerdns works internally after having
>> read the documentation at
>> https://doc.powerdns.com/md/authoritative/internals/
> 
> Martin,
> 
> Can you read
> http://blog.powerdns.com/2015/06/23/what-is-a-powerdns-backend-and-how-do-i-make-it-send-an-nxdomain/
> to see if it helps?
> 
> 	Bert