[Pdns-users] Only REFUSED responses after upgrade.

[Walter Parker]

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 5:54 PM Chris <pdns at cbserviceslondon.com> wrote:

> On 2019-05-28 15:23, bert hubert wrote:
> > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 03:06:33PM -0400, Chris wrote:
> >> This DNS server has been running on Debian 7 Wheezy for years without
> >> issue.
> >> Debian 7.11 packaged PowerDNS 2.9.22.
> >
> > Since 2.9.22 PowerDNS has changed a lot. Run pdnsutil check-zone on
> > your
> > zones. You are likely missing SOA records, or have defective ones,
> > which
> > makes modern PowerDNS conclude the whole zone isn't there, leading to a
> > 'Refused'.
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> >       Bert
>
> Hmmm. You're right.  I get:
>
> [error] No SOA record present, or active, in zone 'remote.local'.
>
> I have an SOA record, but I obviously have something wrong with it.
>
> I'm using the PowerAdmin web interface, and in the hostmaster email
> address it's replacing the @ with a .
> Could that have something to do with it?
>
> Chris
>
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Another thing to be aware of, if you move to version 4.1 or later,
recursion was removed from PowerDNS. You will have to a separate server
application to make non authoritative (recursive) DNS requests at that
point.


Walter

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