[Pdns-users] auth pdnsutil check-zone SOA weirdness.

[Frank Hauptle]

hi all,

Thanks for your help Brian,

I think a mismatch has happened between powerdns and poweradmin as the
exact same ns record added by poweradmin is not registered by check-zone,
but if I add it via add-record it works.
When I get a sec I will go directly to the DB and see what is different
about the records that might cause that. for now,  I have added them all
using add-record and it passes checks.

pdns 5.0.6
powerdns admin Version 0.4.2

regards

Frank


On Wed, Jul 1, 2026 at 4:33 PM Frank Hauptle <franki.hauptle at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello everyone
> I am rusty as hell with DNS but I've had a pdns install running for about
> 10 years and I've administered bind over the years for work... and now I am
> updating pdns it with shiny newness within docker containers (and with
> poweradmin in docker also)
>
> To test I am using "pdnsutil check-zone example.com" from the command
> line of the container and I am getting this back.
>
> pdns at 833f0efd3662:/$ pdnsutil check-zone example.com
> [*Error] No NS record at zone apex in zone 'example.com
> <http://example.com>'*
> Checked 2 records of 'example.com', 1 errors, 0 warnings.
>
> but if I run dig on my test domain I get this back:
> dig +noall +answer +multiline example.com ANY @192.168.0.42
> example.com.            3600 IN SOA ns.example2.com.
> hostmaster.example2.com. (
>                                 2026070101 ; serial
>                                 14400      ; refresh (4 hours)
>                                 3600       ; retry (1 hour)
>                                 604800     ; expire (1 week)
>                                 3600       ; minimum (1 hour)
>                                 )
> Before this the SOA was set to an invalid message which I fixed with an
> entry in pdns.conf default-soa-content=
> with the text as appears in the dig above.
>
> but when I do a check-zone it still returns the error up the top.. doing
> my head in.
>
> Can anyone give me any pointers please?
>
> best regards
>
> Frank
>
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