[Pdns-users] Recursor - resolving local internal IPs?

[Otto Moerbeek]

Hi,

This is all odd indeed. Espcecially since recurse: false is default for
recurosr.forward_zones and recursor.serve_rfc1918: true is default as well.

Can you provide a complete minimal config that
does not work for you? 

	-Otto

On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 11:34:32AM -0400, Charles Sprickman via Pdns-users wrote:

> Very odd..
> 
> So I see I needed "recurse: false":
> 
>   forward_zones:
>   - zone: 88.99.10.in-addr.arpa
>     recurse: false
>     forwarders:
>     - 10.99.88.247
>     - 10.99.88.250
> 
> But also to keep it from locking up I had to remove "serve_rfc1918: true" which seems odd.
> 
> Anyhow, seems to be working now.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Charles
> 
> > On Sep 21, 2025, at 10:58 PM, Charles Sprickman via Pdns-users <pdns-users at mailman.powerdns.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I know this is basic, but working on a small site where we just have two PDNS auth servers and two recursors, all on different hosts/jails and I want to be able to resolve a reverse/in-addr.arpa subnet.
> > 
> > At first I thought I was just shooting myself in the foot with a bad "dont_query" line, so I reduced that to just this:
> > 
> > outgoing:
> >   dont_query:
> >   - 127.0.0.0/8
> > 
> > also made sure rfc1918 is allowed:
> > 
> > serve_rfc1918: true (in the recursor section)
> > 
> > Then I looked at my old pre-YAML configs from a very, very dated version we were running, and realized that the recursor just didn't know to look locally to resolve "10.99.88.0/24".
> > 
> > So I added this:
> > 
> > recursor:
> >  forward_zones:
> >    - zone: 88.99.10.in-addr.arpa
> >      forwarders:
> >      - 10.99.88.247
> >      - 10.99.88.250
> > 
> > I confirmed I have those IPs correct and that they answer for 10.99.88.0/24. When I add this stanza, powerdns starts, doesn't log anything and is then unkillable with anything other than a "kill -9". What am I missing here?
> > 
> > This is recursor version 5.2.4 talking to auth server 4.9.1 on FreeBSD 13.4.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Charles
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