> On Feb 19, 2016, at 6:03 PM, Andrew Bogott <abog...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > I'm running designate kilo with a pdns backend. I originally set things > up in Juno, with designate-central syncing directly to the pdns mysql > backend. Everything was stable until my upgrade to Kilo. During the upgrade > to Kilo I was advised to add the mdns service, which I did, and I got things > mostly working. Every once in a while my pdns service falls over, though, > and the pdns logs are VERY strange. > > As best I can tell, I am now (accidentally) using two simultaneous pdns > backends: designate-central writes directly to the pdns mysql database, but > mdns also sends sync requests which causes pdns to grab records via AXFR and > write them to the database (even though they are already there, thanks to the > direct writing by central). As you can imagine, this allows for a host of > weird race conditions. > > The docs for this are baffling -- designate design is changing rapidly and > most docs are unversioned, so it's hard for me to know what I'm looking at. > Here are my questions: > > 1) Is it still possible to have central write directly to mysql backend? > Can I, in that case, simply turn mdns off, switch my pdns service to > master=false slave=false and live happily and simply? > > 2) If, on the contrary, I'm meant to do this via AXFR, why do the docs still > tell me to configure designate with access to the pdns mysql backend? >
As I understand it, in Kilo and later mdns must be primary and send data to other backends via XFR. > 3) (meta-question) Is there a designate-specific list, or new IRC channel I > should be using? I have in the past gotten good support in > #openstack-designate on freenode, but that channel has been utterly silent > for several months. > Try #openstack-dns instead. > Thanks all! > > -Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org > Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
