[Pdns-users] Creating SRV records (for DNS-SD purposes)

[Aki Tuomi]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 12:32:30PM -0700, Daniel Miller wrote:
> Obviously I'm doing something wrong - just have no clue what.  More
> so than usual.
> 
> Previously I've been using the PowerAdmin web GUI.  Worked great -
> but seems like it's lacking recent development.  And I couldn't get
> my SRV record to be accepted.
> 
> So I've started using PowerDNS-Admin.  Which also seems great.
> But...it does not (at least for me at this time) appear to include
> support for creating SRV records.
> 
> I'm currently using a MySQL backend.  So I tried poking a record in
> directly - which didn't do well.
> 
> Finally, thought I'd go right to the horse's...ear?  pdnsutil
> add-record.  And...I get the very informative message "missing field
> at the end of record content".
> 
> Since I freely admit I'm clueless on the correct format of the SRV
> records (I'm simply trying to setup my LAN to hopefully be a little
> more self-administrating) - I could use some guidance.  I've never
> seen a "full" example, particularly using pdnsutil, which would help
> tremendously.  My intent:
> 
> I have a zone "mydomain.lan". I have successfully created:
> 
> b._dns-sd._udp as a PTR, with value "mydomain.lan".
> lb._dns-sd as a PTR, with value "mydomain.lan"
> 
> But now I am attempting:
> 
> pdnsutil add-record mydomain.lan
> HP_Officejet_Pro_X576dw_MFP._tcp.mydomain.lan srv 0 0 631
> server.mydomain.lan
> Error: Parsing record content (try 'pdnsutil check-zone'): missing
> field at the end of record content '0'
> 
> What perfectly obvious blunder am I making?
> -- 
> Daniel

Try pdnsutil add-record mydomain.lan HP_Officejet_Pro_X576dw_MFP._tcp.mydomain.lan srv 0 "0 631 server.mydomain.lan"