[Pdns-users] strange servfail

[bert hubert]

Hi Martin,

You appear to have put domain names in the type field! The error messages say the type is example.example.com.

     Bert

On Oct 29, 2015 17:10, Martin <domains at crystalline.nl> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have setup a simple MySQL backend for a domain with a few MX records, a couple of A records, two NS records and a SOA record for the domain.
>
> All dig commands are run from a completely unrelated server:
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> dig a www.example.com is working: it returns the right A record
>
> dig a example.com is working: it returns the right A record
>
> Now this is where things go wrong:
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> dig a abc.example.com returns a SERVFAIL but I am expecting a NXDOMAIN response because there is no A record for abc.example.com
>
> I checked the PowerDNS logs and this is there:
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> Oct 29 16:44:45 ns1 pdns[27687]: Exception building answer packet (Unknown DNS type 'example.example.com') sending out servfail
> Oct 29 16:44:45 ns1 pdns[27687]: Exception building answer packet (Unknown DNS type 'example.example.com') sending out servfail
> Oct 29 16:44:45 ns1 pdns[27687]: Exception building answer packet (Unknown DNS type 'example.example.com') sending out servfail
> Oct 29 16:44:45 ns1 pdns[27687]: Exception building answer packet (Unknown DNS type 'example.example.com') sending out servfail
> Oct 29 16:44:45 ns1 pdns[27687]: Exception building answer packet (Unknown DNS type 'example.example.com') sending out servfail
>
> Five messages with unknow dns type 'domain.domain.tld'.
>
> I have tried an online tool like http://www.kloth.net/services/dig.php as well and it generates the same error in the logs but only once instead of five times.
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> Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm stumped. I'm running the latest version on Debian.
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> Thanks,
>
> Martin
>
>