[Pdns-users] control socket name in virtual instance

[Mark Moseley]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 4:23 PM Mariano Absatz - el Baby via Pdns-users <
pdns-users at mailman.powerdns.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using pdns 4.5.2 under Debian 11.
>
> I configured 2 virtual instances of pdns following the instructions in
> https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/guides/virtual-instances.html
>
> One is called "EXTERNO" and the other "INTERNO", with configurations in
> /etc/powerdns/pdns-EXTERNO.conf and /etc/powerdns/pdns-INTERNO.conf
>
> Now I'd like to try pdns_control on the same host.
>
> The problem I have is that the socket for the "EXTERNO" instance is
> /var/run/pdns-EXTERNO/pdns*-EXTERNO*.controlsocket and the socket for the
> "INTERNO" instance is /var/run/pdns-INTERNO/pdns*-INTERNO*.controlsocket
>
> However, if I try to use the pdns_control command, it only has a
> --socket-dir option, but no --socket-name option, and it assumes the
> socket name is *always* pdns.controlsocket.
>
> I can't find either a socket-name (or equivalent) option for the
> configuration file.
>
> Here's an example:
>
> $ pdns_control --socket-dir=/var/run/pdns-EXTERNO current-config
> Fatal error: Unable to connect to remote '/var/run/pdns-EXTERNO/pdns.controlsocket': No such file or directory
> $ ls -l /var/run/pdns-EXTERNO
> total 0
> srwxr-xr-x 1 pdns pdns 0 Jan 20 20:59 pdns-EXTERNO.controlsocket
>
>
> Try the --config-name option, i.e. --config-name=EXTERNO
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