Hi Martin, You appear to have put domain names in the type field! The error messages say the type is example.example.com.
Bert On Oct 29, 2015 17:10, Martin <doma...@crystalline.nl> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have setup a simple MySQL backend for a domain with a few MX records, a > couple of A records, two NS records and a SOA record for the domain. > > All dig commands are run from a completely unrelated server: > > dig a www.example.com is working: it returns the right A record > > dig a example.com is working: it returns the right A record > > Now this is where things go wrong: > > dig a abc.example.com returns a SERVFAIL but I am expecting a NXDOMAIN > response because there is no A record for abc.example.com > > I checked the PowerDNS logs and this is there: > > Oct 29 16:44:45 ns1 pdns[27687]: Exception building answer packet (Unknown > DNS type 'example.example.com') sending out servfail > Oct 29 16:44:45 ns1 pdns[27687]: Exception building answer packet (Unknown > DNS type 'example.example.com') sending out servfail > Oct 29 16:44:45 ns1 pdns[27687]: Exception building answer packet (Unknown > DNS type 'example.example.com') sending out servfail > Oct 29 16:44:45 ns1 pdns[27687]: Exception building answer packet (Unknown > DNS type 'example.example.com') sending out servfail > Oct 29 16:44:45 ns1 pdns[27687]: Exception building answer packet (Unknown > DNS type 'example.example.com') sending out servfail > > Five messages with unknow dns type 'domain.domain.tld'. > > I have tried an online tool like http://www.kloth.net/services/dig.php as > well and it generates the same error in the logs but only once instead of > five times. > > Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm stumped. I'm running the > latest version on Debian. > > Thanks, > > Martin > > _______________________________________________ Pdns-users mailing list Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users