[Pdns-users] pdns-recursor help

[Otto Moerbeek]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 12:22:06AM -0800, Bill MacAllister via Pdns-users wrote:

> I am new to Power DNS and am attempting to setup a Power DNS recursor
> server.  I am using Debian bookworm and I have installed the pdns-recursor
> package.  The server is listening and dig can connect to the server,
> but dig returns a status of SERVFAIL.  What should I look at?  What am
> I missing?
> 
> Ahh, finally figured out how to get queries into syslog.  Here is what I am
> seeing there:
> 
> 2024-02-17T08:11:50.536920+00:00 zoot-bookworm pdns_recursor[10110]:
> msg="Question" subsystem="syncres" level="0" prio="Info" tid="2"
> ts="1708157510.535" ecs="" mtid="1" proto="udp" qname="web.stanford.edu"
> qtype="A" remote="10.0.0.32:55021"
> 
> 2024-02-17T08:11:50.846316+00:00 zoot-bookworm pdns_recursor[10110]:
> msg="Sending SERVFAIL during resolve" error="Server Failure while retrieving
> DS records for edu" subsystem="syncres" level="0" prio="Notice" tid="2"
> ts="1708157510.845" ecs="" mtid="1" proto="udp" qname="web.stanford.edu"
> qtype="A" remote="10.0.0.32:55021"
> 
> 2024-02-17T08:11:50.846977+00:00 zoot-bookworm pdns_recursor[10110]:
> msg="Answer" subsystem="syncres" level="0" prio="Info" tid="2"
> ts="1708157510.846" additional="1" answers="0" dotout="0" ecs="" mtid="1"
> netms="306.381000" outqueries="28" proto="udp" qname="web.stanford.edu"
> qtype="A" rcode="2" rd="1" remote="10.0.0.32:55021" tcpout="0" throttled="0"
> timeouts="0" totms="310.015000" validationState="Indeterminate"
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> 
> Bill

Your recursor is not able to get an answer from the root servers, at
least not for DS queries.

A run with --trace as a command line option will reveal more details
of what is going on.

Also: please show your config file.

	-Otto