[Pdns-users] webserver api and pdnsutil not in agreement

Curtis Maurand curtis at maurand.com
Tue Oct 14 03:18:57 UTC 2025


Hello,

I have a pdns authoritative server in production. It is version 4.9.9 
running on Devuan Daedalus (Debian Bookworm without systemd). It was 
installed via the powerdns repo. All seems to be working well and will 
list all zones normally. when I try do something as simple in the api as 
an export zone I get a 500 error.

When I run

|curl -v -H "X-API-Key: <my api key>"| 
|http://localhost:8443/api/v1/servers/localhost/zones| 
<http://localhost:8443/api/v1/servers/localhost/zones/xyonethost.com/export> 
||jq .|

|I get a list of zones.
|

when I run:

|curl -v -H "X-API-Key: <my api key>"| 
|http://localhost:8443/api/v1/servers/localhost/zones/xyonethost.com/export| 
<http://localhost:8443/api/v1/servers/localhost/zones/xyonethost.com/export> 
||jq .|

I get a 500 error when I try to run that. I check the syslog and I get:

|[webserver] 937b5389-ae14-4ea8-ad57-2b23f18b930b HTTP ISE for 
"/api/v1/servers/localhost/zones/xyonethost.com/export": STL Exception: 
Parsing record content (try 'pdnsutil check-zone'): Data field in DNS 
should start with quote (") at position 0 of 'v=DKIM1; t=s; 
p=MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEArsfaX8Im/TYQXFicVWzX3AgvWHupQ7AFK10ewMsdAahd40aDdbcOKndApLL6XUg7G21QKGdIhYKSrtRcQOqNwCkfAiFVmoVYLdAZwT0JUd0MYVDGVxy30Tx5NK4S8k7ru//z876wvm9AJgMPLlyt0RRMGSnXdH0PH1pmOCW0ECVCAYMCMlZ69NcB2zsQpjMaRfKjW36C3GYKDmW6Ibg5iw+qE97Nl2BIx4JdirTE32PSyu/mraORgNRiRLJ/6L8VZoCMxcvhxlp6ypl3vHnlou6EF1gkbALLAv9OMJSlwRihI3apzqFtt+7Wf0jmpqNvHOjBbCQZIVJ92XA899++hwIDAQAB'| 


|Then I run:|

root at sirius:/etc/powerdns/pdns.d# pdnsutil check-zone xyonethost.com 
<http://xyonethost.com>

Checked 18 records of 'xyonethost.com', 0 errors, 0 warnings.

This seems to be a bug. I have gone into the database and enclosed the 
txt record in quotes and that did nothing.

root at sirius:/etc/powerdns/pdns.d# dig txt default._domainkey.xyonethost.com u/localhost +short

returns

|"v=DKIM1; t=s; 
p=MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEArsfaX8Im/TYQXFicVWzX3AgvWHupQ7AFK10ewMsdAahd40aDdbcOKndApLL6XUg7G21QKGdIhYKSrtRcQOqNwCkfAiFVmoVYLdAZwT0JUd0MYVDGVxy30Tx5NK4S8k7ru//z876wvm9AJgMPLlyt0RRMGSnXdH0PH1pmOCW0ECVCAYMCMlZ69NcB2zsQpjMaRfK" 
"jW36C3GYKDmW6Ibg5iw+qE97Nl2BIx4JdirTE32PSyu/mraORgNRiRLJ/6L8VZoCMxcvhxlp6ypl3vHnlou6EF1gkbALLAv9OMJSlwRihI3apzqFtt+7Wf0jmpqNvHOjBbCQZIVJ92XA899++hwIDAQAB"|

|the string in the database has no spaces or returns in it. Have I come 
across a bug or am I missing something stupid?|

|Thanks|
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