Re: [Pdns-users] SQLite3 problem during stress

2009-07-20 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Christian Svenssonb...@cmd.nu wrote: Yes, updating only one zone at the time is very much acceptable - that the initial transfer takes quite long time does not matter. We do not want to use an active database due to memory / CPU footprint. If PowerDNS locks

Re: [Pdns-users] SQLite3 problem during stress

2009-07-19 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Norbert Sendetzkynorb...@linuxnetworks.de wrote: Hi Christian After combating some weird incompatibility with Debian Lenny 5.0 where PDNSs gsqlite3 refused to write anything to the database it begun to crash when we did the initial transfer (notify of several

Re: [Pdns-users] SQLite3 problem during stress

2009-07-18 Thread bert hubert
Very quick reply without thinking, make sure PowerDNS has write permissions on the *directory* containing the sqlite3 database - this tends to trip people up 'it can write to the file' is not enough. I'll read your message more carefully to see what else might be happening. Bert On Sat, Jul

Re: [Pdns-users] problems resolving CNAME's with pdns_recursor 3.1.7

2009-07-17 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Tom Muellert.muel...@strato-rz.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, sometimes the pdns_recursor doesn't send all A or records where the requested CNAME points to. Tom, Do you run with an IPv6 local query address enabled? Can

Re: [Pdns-users] TCP Query Problem

2009-07-16 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:48 AM, InterNetworX|Hostmasterhostmas...@inwx.de wrote: Hello, we're running PowerDNS since a long time. Usaly TCP queries are working, only from time to time we need to restart PowerDNS if it stops. Hello InterNetwoX|Hostmaster, Thank you for your report. Can you

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS DNSSEC!

2009-07-15 Thread bert hubert
Hi everybody, I've seen the discussion on the list, and I've had more questions off-list about DNSSEC, DNSCurve and the quality and desirability of these protocols. In the message below, I want to share some of my thoughts on this, and then I kindly request everyone to have this discussion

Re: [Pdns-users] DHCP and powerdns backend ldap

2009-07-12 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Vladimir Elizarov xengelpubl...@gmail.com wrote: There are some replication between powerdns and dhcp? Sadly, not yet. It turns out this is not easy to do. People sometimes ask if we are pondering 'PowerDHCP' for this reason. Bert

Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS Recursor compile errors on g++ 4.4.0

2009-07-05 Thread bert hubert
Hi everybody, On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Roger Libiezrlib...@arthmoor.com wrote: PDNS-Recursor version 3.1.7 from the download page. I'm unaware of there being anything newer. If the RPM package is any indication, it's Boost 1.37. 3.1.7 indeed does not compile with Boost 1.37 or

Re: [Pdns-users] UDP Connection Table Exhaustion?

2009-07-03 Thread bert hubert
To nuance this a bit - on Linux, you can have great benefit from the iptables 'NOTRACK' target, which can help you do firewalling that will not run into problems from busy DNS traffic. Bert On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Matthew Walster - Gyronmatthew.wals...@gyron.net wrote:

[Pdns-users] PowerDNS at HAR 2009 conference!

2009-07-01 Thread bert hubert
Hi everybody, I thought I'd let you know I'll be presenting on DNS at the famous HAR 2009 conference: International technology security conference. Four days of technology, ideological debates and hands-on tinkering. On August 13-16, 2009 the 20th anniversary edition of the four-yearly Dutch

Re: [Pdns-users] Recursor fails to build on CentOS

2009-06-29 Thread bert hubert
Boost 1.39 is too new for the Recursor 3.1.7. Either use an older Boost, or use a snapshot of the recursor, which has this problem fixed. Bert On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Jesse Angelljesse.ang...@firespring.com wrote: Any idea why this is happening? Fails with:  lwres.cc:184: error:

Re: [Pdns-users] SIGSEGV after some AXFR queries

2009-06-29 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Marek Kroemekema...@positive-internet.com wrote: Hi there, Thanks for suggestions. I was trying to find the particular domain that could have some odd data in MySQL - but the problem is that this DNS server seems to send around ~40 AXFR requests in a row - I

Re: [Pdns-users] Return Authority section

2009-06-29 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Jesse Angelljesse.ang...@firespring.com wrote: I’m migrating from bind and one thing that I noticed is that bind returns the NS records and the A records for those NS records with every query.  I noticed that PowerDNS does not do this and I’m trying to figure

Re: [Pdns-users] 2.9.22 compile problem with ldap

2009-06-22 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Gary Smithg...@primeexalia.com wrote: Hello, We have an SRPM for 2.9.21.2 that compiles fine.  We are trying to update the package to 2.9.22.  In doing so we ran into an issue with configure not being able to find ldap.  So, trying it straight (without

Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS performance comparison to BIND

2009-06-22 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Jan Rudinskyrudi...@fel.cvut.cz wrote: Hello, I have tested PDNS performance (configuration below). A zone transfer of 100 000 records takes ~ 10 s using either MySQL or file backends. However Bind can make it in ~ 1 s (file-stored records). Hi Jan, We've

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible DNS DOS?

2009-06-22 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Chris Modesittch...@veracitycom.net wrote: What I have been seeing recently show up in the logs is: Jun 22 09:09:38 dns1 pdns[10948]: 5003 questions waiting for database attention. Limit is 5000, respawning This is very consistent with a (brief) spike in

[Pdns-users] test post

2009-06-17 Thread bert hubert
test post, please ignore. -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed source services ___ Pdns-users mailing list Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com

[Pdns-users] third test

2009-06-17 Thread bert hubert
third test to get things working again.. -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed source services ___ Pdns-users mailing list Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com

[Pdns-users] PowerDNS Presentation over at 'SIDN Relatiedag'

2009-05-16 Thread bert hubert
aanmeldprocedure op http://www.relatiedagsidn.nl of op de deelnemerssite van SIDN. Ik zie jullie graag op 18 juni. Groeten, Bert Hubert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed source services

[Pdns-users] Mailing list downtime

2009-05-09 Thread bert hubert
Hi PowerDNS list readers, Due to massive amounts of spam, the PowerDNS Mailman / Postfix installation is having problems. I think I have things working again, but some messages from the past week may be lost. So if your post did not make it, now might be a good time to re-send it. Apologies

Re: Fwd: [Pdns-users] pdns-recursor forwarder setting

2009-04-07 Thread bert hubert
From: Darren Gamble darren.gam...@sjrb.ca It doesn't, sorry. I've previously opened up ticket #199 to request this functionality on a per-zone basis. ?This is blocking replacing some of our DNS servers with PowerDNS. Half of the required functionality was added yesterday. What is left to

[Pdns-users] AXFR error

2009-03-08 Thread bert hubert
Johan, Check if your domain_id field is filled out correctly for all records in your zone. It looks like they aren't. To check manually, try: select id from domains where name='example.com'; select * from records wher domain_id=123; where 123 is the domain id. Then check to see if you see all

[Pdns-users] Re: AXFR error

2009-03-08 Thread bert hubert
44 45 27 On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 2:37 PM, bert hubert bert.hub...@netherlabs.nl wrote: Johan, Check if your domain_id field is filled out correctly for all records in your zone. It looks like they aren't. To check manually, try: select id from domains where name='example.com

Re: [Pdns-users] bind backend behavior

2009-03-03 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:01:03PM +0100, Marco Chiavacci wrote: - with bind we can change in named.conf for a domain the zone file (another zone file) and during a reconfig this zone was reloaded properly - with pdns we change in named.conf in same way zone file but during rediscover domain

Re: [Pdns-users] Weird CNAME root-referral problem

2009-02-10 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 03:38:11AM -0500, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote: At least you came up with a patch about as fast as I found the bug! :-) (We only started testing powerdns a few days ago; it's already one of the nameservers for apache.org and perl.org actually). Cool! I read in your

[Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.8-prerelease with EDNS-PING

2009-02-07 Thread bert hubert
Hi everybody, Quoting from http://edns-ping.org : EDNS-PING is an option within the EDNS DNS framework which allows nameservers to protect themselves from certain spoofing attacks. By default, responses to DNS questions are matched to their questions by making sure they share the

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.8-prerelease with EDNS-PING

2009-02-07 Thread bert hubert
One small note - EDNS-PING is *not* yet an official standard. It is like buying a '802.11N DRAFT' router! But it is unlikely the technical details (wire format) of EDNS-PING will change, since the specification is so simple. Bert On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 01:22:29AM +0100, bert hubert

Re: [Pdns-users] redirect queries

2009-01-28 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:38:53AM -0200, sysadmin wrote: Hi, It's possible setup recursor to point to a specific A record instead return a error, if a domain do not exist ? Please look into the 'lua' scripts, they make this possible. Search for 'Lua' in the manual to see how this works.

Re: [Pdns-users] Does PowerDNS need the '.' domain?

2009-01-28 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 07:21:38PM +0100, Arjan Schrijver wrote: Hi list, After some complaints that our DNS server was not answering all questions correctly, we found out that our PowerDNS installation thinks it's authoritative for the root '.' domain. The domain has domain_id 1, so my

Re: [Pdns-users] ignore +norecurse ?

2008-12-22 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 03:45:58PM +0100, Jeroen Wunnink wrote: Is there a way to force a recurse even if a norecurse is set on the requesting end (i.e. ignore the norecurse flag) ? No. I'm trying to forward non existing zones to a recursing backend which will always reply with correct

Re: [Pdns-users] intel compiler

2008-12-16 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:03:07PM +0100, Marco Chiavacci wrote: because nameserver.cc(117): error: destructible entities are not allowed inside of a statement expression htons is sometimes a very weird macro, so I can understand this error. - the second problem is a strange thing because

[Pdns-users] Release Candidate: PowerDNS Authoritative Server 2.9.22-rc2 released!

2008-11-29 Thread bert hubert
Download from: http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-2.9.22-rc1.tar.gz http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/deb/stable/pdns-static_2.9.22-rc1-1_i386.deb http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/rpm/pdns-static-2.9.22rc1-1.i386.rpm 2.9.22 will be a very important

[Pdns-users] Re: [Pdns-announce] Release Candidate: PowerDNS Authoritative Server 2.9.22-rc2 released!

2008-11-29 Thread bert hubert
This should of course be: http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-2.9.22-rc2.tar.gz http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/deb/stable/pdns-static_2.9.22-rc2-1_i386.deb http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/rpm/pdns-static-2.9.22rc2-1.i386.rpm Thanks to Ton van

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS Authoritative Server 2.9.21.2 Security Upgrade

2008-11-18 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:10:27PM +0100, Ton van Rosmalen wrote: Hi Bert, Is the patch also integrated in the snapshot 1293 (or up)? It is! I recommend running: http://svn.powerdns.com/snapshots/1299/ or higher Bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS

[Pdns-users] Release Candidate: PowerDNS Authoritative Server 2.9.22-rc1 released!

2008-11-18 Thread bert hubert
Download from: http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-2.9.22-rc1.tar.gz http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/deb/stable/pdns-static_2.9.22-rc1-1_i386.deb http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/rpm/pdns-static-2.9.22rc1-1.i386.rpm Hi Everybody, 2.9.22 will be a

Re: [Pdns-users] 2.9.22-rc1 coming up!

2008-11-17 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:54:46PM +0100, Ton van Rosmalen wrote: Hi all, I decided to be adventurous and go ahead and install the snapshot. Thanks Ton! The auth server runs ok, so no problems there. The only problem I see has to do with pdns_control. Hmm, this smells like a bug that had

[Pdns-users] 2.9.22-rc1 coming up!

2008-11-16 Thread bert hubert
Hi everybody, On http://svn.powerdns.com/snapshots/1293/ you can find snapshots of what wil become 2.9.22-rc1 later this week, and probably 2.9.22 real soon after that. This is one of the biggest and imho most exciting Authoritative Server releases in many years. Thanks are due to UPC Broadband

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible memory leakage in webserver pdns-2.9.21.1

2008-11-15 Thread bert hubert
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 07:53:06PM +0100, Dimitrij Hilt wrote: Hi, i discover that pdns process get 20 MB on virtual memory size on 64bit Debian linux, after access to a webserver. Wow - good catch. Can you open a ticket on wiki.powerdns.com? Thanks! -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open

Re: [Pdns-users] Slaves aren't fetching zones fast enough.

2008-11-15 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:04:12AM -0700, Tyler Hall wrote: Wanted to update everyone on this. I've been working with ahu who has been extremely helpful. He added some code into my release to fix the problem I was having. Thanks. This code is now part of the subversion version of PowerDNS,

Re: [Pdns-users] rdns for IPv6

2008-10-26 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 01:56:10PM +0100, Wouter de Jong wrote: However I noticed you have a /64 zone and not a /48 zone in the config. Can you make this work for a /48 zone as well? Yep, I also have a few /48's in there. No problem at all... If Hugo reports a problem, you can be pretty

Re: [Pdns-users] Compile Error - exception not defined

2008-09-03 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:32:55PM -0700, Cameron Tacklind wrote: I'm trying to make pdns on a Solaris 10. My goal is to get it running with a (g)mysql backend. Cameron, Try boost 1.35. The PowerDNS in subversion is compatible with 1.36, but the release versions are not. Good luck! --

Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS-Recursor Not Providing DNS Lookups?

2008-08-30 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 01:43:32PM -0600, Darren Gamble wrote: Hi everyone, Just to throw my two cents in here... I'm not sure what to do now - it might be good for PowerDNS to set the 'rd' bit in forwarded queries. We've been meaning to open up a trac ticket for this. Our

Re: [Pdns-users] WRR with PowerDNS

2008-08-19 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:17:29AM +0100, Simon McCartney wrote: I've written up some notes on achieving some form of WRR with PowerDNS here: http://www.mccartney.ie/wordpress/2008/08/19/wrr-dns-with-powerdns/ Stunning :-) This remind of me when I did binning like this: select time_t -

Re: [Pdns-users] 2.9.21.1 not able to build on RHEL 3

2008-08-07 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 12:06:19AM +0200, Bas wrote: Hi Bert, When compiling 2.9.21.1 i get the following error. (2.9.21 used to build fine and still does.) Bas, I've fixed the tar.gz generation, there is an improved 2.9.21.1 on the website now. It is the same code, but auto* has been

[Pdns-users] Security update: PowerDNS Authoritative Server 2.9.21.1 released

2008-08-06 Thread bert hubert
Released on the 6th of August 2008. * http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-2.9.21.1.tar.gz * http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/deb/stable/pdns-static_2.9.21.1-1_i386.deb * http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/rpm/pdns-static-2.9.21.1-1.i386.rpm * All UNIX/Linux distributions

Re: [Pdns-users] powerdns segfaulting?

2008-07-31 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 09:29:27AM -0700, Daniel Greene - (mt) Media Temple wrote: Very strange.. we just had one of our 3-node pdns clusters go down, each box with a different issue. One had segfaulted, one had hung on a FUTEX call (from strace, though there was a bit of a rush to get the

Re: [Pdns-users] Use recursor to block phishing

2008-07-29 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:39:04PM -0300, sysadmin wrote: Regular zonefile format, with the exception of wildcards. I setup recursor to load zone file as follow * IN A 127.0.0.1 A * is a wildcard - which sadly does not work yet in the powerdns recursor auth server.

Re: [Pdns-users] Where can I download Windows binaries?

2008-07-29 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 09:48:15AM +, Annoyed Tuna wrote: Does anyone know where I can download Win32 binaries for 2.9.21? Hello 'Annoyed Tuna', I'm afraid there are no windows binaries for 2.9.21 - they are a lot of work to create and we don't get enough interest for them. Sorry. --

Re: [Pdns-users] Use recursor to block phishing

2008-07-29 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 07:30:13AM -0300, sysadmin wrote: This should simply be: zonadelafrontera.cl=malware this format doesn't work too, the result still the same: Marlon, Please show your entire recursor configuration - I wonder if your file is actually being loaded! Bert --

Re: Can pdns-recursor forward . ? / Re: [Pdns-users] Where can I download Windows binaries?

2008-07-29 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:49:24PM +0200, Leen Besselink wrote: I have an other reason I might want a windows binary. In this case for PowerDNS-recursor. You can compile the powerdns recursor on windows if you are reasonably windows savvy. It takes me around two days to get it working usually.

Re: [Pdns-users] Where can I download Windows binaries?

2008-07-29 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:24:36PM +0200, Rick Jansen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think there would be a lot more interest from Windows Server users, if recent download packages would be available. And Windows users, I think, are often more commercial users, with

Re: Can pdns-recursor forward . ? / Re: [Pdns-users] Where can I download Windows binaries?

2008-07-29 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:37:27PM +0200, Leen Besselink wrote: Is it a Visual Studio or something like cygwin you use to compile it ? Visual studio express works very well, and it is a free (if complicated) download. Bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven

Re: [Pdns-users] Re: Can pdns-recursor forward . ? / Re: Where can I download Windows binaries?

2008-07-29 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:00:51AM +0200, Leen Besselink wrote: I guess it depends how the UDP forwarder is implemented - there is no reason why the forwarder wouldn't be able to use similarly randomised source ports (but you would lose caching, of course) I agree, but I've never seen one.

Re: [Pdns-users] Wildcard A Record Question

2008-07-28 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 08:47:08PM +0200, Gabriel J Marais wrote: Resolved : Seems like the missing SOA and NS records were needed to successfully do *wildcards in PDNS. PowerDNS really needs SOA records in the database, otherwise it takes the liberty to assume the zone is not there. This is

Re: [Pdns-users] Use recursor to block phishing

2008-07-25 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 09:47:56AM -0300, Marlon wrote: How I create a zone on recursor to block phishing sites ? The other solution that was emailed works as well, but in addition, you can use the 'auth-zones' in the configuration file to point these domains to a zone containing nothing but a

Re: [Pdns-users] Use recursor to block phishing

2008-07-25 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 01:14:33PM -0300, Marlon wrote: Sorry for the newbie question, but what is the format of zone file that recursor accept ? Regular zonefile format, with the exception of wildcards. Bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software

Re: [Pdns-users] TCP nameserver had error

2008-07-24 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:08:40PM +0200, Ronny Wagner wrote: Logmessage: Jul 24 17:05:02 sv02 pdns[1]: TCP nameserver had error, cycling backend: Reading data: Connection reset by peer What is that for a fail message? It is not very important - a remote nameserver that queried you

Re: [Pdns-users] Problems with ANY query

2008-07-16 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:21:23PM +0200, Martijn Grendelman wrote: I have a problem with some PowerDNS servers, running 2.9.20 with gmysql backend, in particular with ANY queries. I get good results for some domains but not for others, and I have no idea why. Hi Martijn, First let me say

Re: [Pdns-users] host command returning weird results. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

2008-07-09 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 11:45:44AM -0500, Nicholas Williams wrote: I setup PowerDNS with a MySQL 5 backend on Centos 5 this morning. I put in the test.com example records that come in the PowerDNS user guide. When I perform a host query, as suggested in the guide, I get this: Quick answer -

[Pdns-users] Statement on the recent DNS vulnerability impact on PowerDNS (none)

2008-07-09 Thread bert hubert
, on-list or off. Kind regards, Bert Hubert PowerDNS.COM BV -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed source services ___ Pdns-users mailing list Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com

Re: [Pdns-users] Statement on the recent DNS vulnerability impact on PowerDNS (none)

2008-07-09 Thread bert hubert
Some more personal notes on this issue can be found on http://blog.netherlabs.nl/articles/2008/07/09/some-thoughts-on-the-recent-dns-vulnerability Bert On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 08:16:19PM +0200, bert hubert wrote: We're being approached from various angles about PowerDNS and the recently

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns multithread

2008-07-02 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:12:38PM +0600, Anatoliy Kushner wrote: Is it possible to control number of threads in pdns_recursor ? In docs i find only --fork parameter after wich i see 2 processes in my process list Anatoliy, That is about right. Some tricks have been performed to run more

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns-recursor on Solaris

2008-07-01 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 08:25:25AM +0600, Anatoliy Kushner wrote: Is it possible to build pdns-recursor for solaris ? Yes, and this is done frequently. Bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed

Re: [Pdns-users] Patch to fix Makefile-recursor for Make 3.80

2008-06-30 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:42:58PM -0700, Augie Schwer wrote: I needed to apply the following before I could get the latest PowerDNS Recursor (3.1.7) to build under CentOS 4 using Make version 3.80; which admittedly is a version that is six years out of date. Applied, thanks! --

[Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.7 released - with DNS scripting!

2008-06-25 Thread bert hubert
Available on: http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-recursor-3.1.7.tar.bz2 http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/deb/pdns-recursor_3.1.7-1_i386.deb http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/deb/pdns-recursor_3.1.7-1_amd64.deb

Re: [Pdns-users] Delegating whole domain

2008-06-24 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:40:29AM +0200, Lazy wrote: Hello, We have some troble delegating the wlole domain on some other nameserver. Delegating subdomains works flawlessly. Are you trying to re-delegate a domain? So in the .pl zone it is delegated to you, but you are trying to re-delegate it

[Pdns-users] please test PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.7-rc3!

2008-06-22 Thread bert hubert
Hi everybody, In a few days time, version 3.1.7 of the PowerDNS Recursor will be released. This is a rather exciting release because of the new scripting abilities, so I ask you to take a good look at 3.1.7-rc3 to see if it does everything you think it should be doing! This version, or something

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor Lua scripting

2008-06-16 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 08:41:12PM +0200, Christopher Arnold wrote: Is there any plans to add lua support to the resolver so we can add loadbalancing etc. on a global scale for people accessing servers? The recursor already has the 'pipe' backend allowing backends to be written in any

[Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor Lua scripting

2008-06-15 Thread bert hubert
Hi everybody, Over the past week, together with a number of PowerDNS users and Lua experts, I've added support for scripting the PowerDNS Recursor to do interesting things. From the provisional 3.1.7 release notes: This version contains powerful scripting abilities, allowing operators to

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor Lua scripting

2008-06-15 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:04:53PM +0200, Norbert Sendetzky wrote: Interesting concept. What about performance if scripting abilities are compiled in? Do you have any figures when simple scripts are used? If the abilities are compiled in, but no script is loaded, the impact should be

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor Lua scripting

2008-06-15 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 04:21:39PM -0700, Sargun Dhillon wrote: How are you compiling the Lua script? How exactly are you executing it? What sort of memory overhead can this create? Everything is done using native Lua calls. The memory overhead should be very small. The Lua interpreter runs

Re: [Pdns-users] Recursor problem when zone has no NS records

2008-06-04 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:30:43PM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote: A customer has recently led me to discover that pdns_recursor, when performing a recursive query, such as looking for a 'A' record for the likes of 119.177.179.77.zen.spamhaus.org, times out and fails due to the fact that the

Re: [Pdns-users] this ubiquitous recursor again, problems ....

2008-05-31 Thread bert hubert
there are no firewalls. It sits on the public network. Eugene -Original Message- From: bert hubert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 11:31 AM To: Eugene Pefti Cc: pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com Subject: Re: [Pdns-users] this ubiquitous recursor again, problems

Re: [Pdns-users] this ubiquitous recursor again, problems ....

2008-05-30 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:44:15AM -0700, Eugene Pefti wrote: I know that nothing happens all of a sudden but one of my nameservers started playing up again with the recursor. Please provide version of pdns recursor and where you got it from. Is there anything interesting about your

Re: [Pdns-users] NS caching bug reappears in recursor 3.1.6

2008-05-26 Thread bert hubert
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 09:48:07AM -0600, Darren Gamble wrote: OK. Well, you can easily see this behavior on pretty much any domain, although the behavior doesn't cause an issue except in some unusual cases. The situation I described is simply the one that results in many calls to our call

Re: [Pdns-users] AXFR problem

2008-05-22 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 07:56:32PM +0200, Albert wrote: Hi I have a problem with the transfer of the domain, the backup server is not collected from the primary server. When you call the [EMAIL PROTECTED] osanet.pl axfr-b 83.17.46.74 is charged only one record, in a zone where there are 7

Re: [Pdns-users] AXFR problem

2008-05-22 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:52:19AM +0200, Albert wrote: +---+---++--+---+---+--+-++ | id| domain_id | name | type | content | ttl | prio |

Re: [Pdns-users] Disable AFXR of MBOXFW, URL and CURL records ?

2008-05-22 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 03:20:46PM +0200, Jeroen Wunnink wrote: Any way to block URL, CURL and MBOXFW records from trying to be transferred over ? Jeroen, These records are 'fake' and I haven't implemented how they can travel over DNS. Just leaving them out would break your zone I'm afraid.

Re: [Pdns-users] AXFR problem

2008-05-22 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:21:48PM +0200, Albert wrote: Now I delte domain osanet.pl and add again and nothing has changed: Do you have other domains that you can transfer on that server? And another suggestion, can you fix the SOA record to have all the relevant numbers? Bert --

Re: [Pdns-users] NS caching bug reappears in recursor 3.1.6

2008-05-16 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 03:43:44PM -0600, Darren Gamble wrote: The issue is that the cache always caches information it receives in the Authority Section. This can cause a problem where it indefinitely consults a server that is no longer supposed to be authoritative for a zone, but is still

Re: [Pdns-users] Problem parsing domain

2008-05-08 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:54:56AM +0200, Flavio Curti wrote: We run a powerdns 2.9.20 and a 2.9.21. We are secondary for a domain. 2.9.20 can fetch the domain from the primary, 2.9.21 gives the following error: So I understand correctly that neither 2.9.21 nor 'dig' can retrieve the domain?

Re: [Pdns-users] Problem parsing domain

2008-05-08 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 11:36:13AM +0200, Flavio Curti wrote: 2.9.21 can not, this is correct. dig gives the full zone, but the warning embedded: Your master nameserver is sending out corrupt packets, it sets the opcode wrong. If you really want this to work, you'll need to change this line

Re: [Pdns-users] Problem parsing domain

2008-05-08 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 04:54:01PM +0200, Flavio Curti wrote: Our customer is running Mac OS9 and mac dns 1.0.4 (shudder?!). Anyway, he claims it has worked the last XYZ years. I'm a bit hesitating patching the source, which I then have to repatch for every powerdns release. Is there any

[Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.6 released - contains a small security fix

2008-05-03 Thread bert hubert
Released on the 1st of May 2008 - contains a small security fix. Generic GPL sources: http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-recursor-3.1.6.tar.bz2 32-bit Linux: http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/deb/pdns-recursor_3.1.6-1_i386.deb

Re: [Pdns-users] Latency and cache size are correlated

2008-04-30 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 05:17:57PM -0700, Eugene Pefti wrote: Can somebody explain me why the recursor cache size and latency are correlated and directly proportional? This is my dns graph. http://ns2.w3media.net/recursor/ Whenever the cache grows up to 30K entries the latency reaches as high

Re: [Pdns-users] powerdns auth and recursor hardware specs

2008-04-30 Thread bert hubert
This hardware is very very adequate. Please answer my other questions before asking more yourself please. Bert On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:39:38PM -0700, Eugene Pefti wrote: I think I miss something here. Can somebody give an example of hardware specs for the authoritative server with

Re: [Pdns-users] Help, recursor is too slow, mostly doesn't resolve queries

2008-04-28 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 09:00:30PM -0700, Eugene Pefti wrote: I would highly appreciate if somebody help me. We rolled out powerdns into production mode and after several hours of monitoring I found that the recursor is not resolving queries. The service restart could help but then again it

Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS slow

2008-04-28 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 05:37:07PM -0700, Eugene Pefti wrote: I would support Alexx's statement about the overall performance. Just now one of my nameservers died with Can I suggest that you answer my questions from yesterday? That would actually allow me to help you. PowerDNS 2.9.21 is used

Re: [Pdns-users] Crash with signal 11

2008-04-07 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:44:44AM +0200, Oli Schacher wrote: I wrote a script to mass-notify a few domains: Version please? We have two slaves running on Centos 5, using sqlite3 backend. When I ran this script, using about 40 domains, one slave crashed: Interesting. Apr 7 11:11:59 ns1

Re: [Pdns-users] Warp3 Hosting violates the GPL

2008-03-24 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:30:14PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, I hope that someone here can give some advice regarding the following. It is indeed not the right place. The only people that can act on this are the copyright

[Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.5-rc1 released - expected to be final

2008-03-22 Thread bert hubert
Dear PowerDNS users, Following snapshot5, 'release candidate 1' is released today. RC1 is expected to be final, so your help in testing right now is very appreciated, and should be relatively risk free. RC1 is already running in production in some places, as is snapshot5. .tar.bz2 (source):

Re: [Pdns-users] Call for recursive testing data - please help!

2008-03-17 Thread bert hubert
Regards, Ton van Rosmalen bert hubert schreef: Dear PowerDNS users, PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.5 is around the corner, shaping up to be a rather important upgrade, and we need your help! 3.1.5 is in large scale production use in some places already, which has helped shake out a number

Re: [Pdns-users] TinyDNS backend for PowerDNS

2008-03-17 Thread bert hubert
Clearw're Senior Systems Engineer From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Duane Sent: Sat 3/15/2008 4:21 PM To: pdns-users Subject: Re: [Pdns-users] TinyDNS backend for PowerDNS bert hubert wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:52:21AM +1100, Duane wrote

[Pdns-users] Call for recursive testing data - please help!

2008-03-16 Thread bert hubert
it is for us. Please contact me on how to transfer these files to me. We will treat your anonymised data as confidential, of course. Kind regards, Bert Hubert PowerDNS -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed source

[Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.5-snapshot5 available

2008-03-16 Thread bert hubert
Hi everybody, The provisional release notes for PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.5 can be found on: http://doc.powerdns.com/changelog.html#CHANGELOG-RECURSOR-3-1-5 Snapshot 5 is available on: http://svn.powerdns.com/snapshots/pdns-recursor-3.1.5-snapshot5.tar.bz2 For Linux, i386:

Re: [Pdns-users] TinyDNS backend for PowerDNS

2008-03-15 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:17:58AM +1100, Duane wrote: bert hubert wrote: This is because PowerDNS internally makes 'backend queries', not 'dns queries'. This in turn is because we want to free the backend from knowing about DNS logic - otherwise it would have to follow CNAME chains etc

Re: [Pdns-users] TinyDNS backend for PowerDNS

2008-03-15 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:52:21AM +1100, Duane wrote: I'm unhappy it doesn't match your needs though, but perhaps you want something else. Basically you get a lot of ANY queries, instead of queries for the exact type requested. This turns out to be a large speedup, but it may hurt you.

Re: [Pdns-users] powerdns master, bind slave, slave not updating...

2008-03-03 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 02:58:18PM -0800, Mathew Hennessy wrote: I've tried converting from BIND9 to PowerDNS configured as a slave with opendbx/sqlite3, and I'm still not getting any love. How can I trick the master into not sending SERVFAIL for this demonstration setup? If PowerDNS is not

fixed Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS log file configuration

2008-02-23 Thread bert hubert
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 08:35:09AM +0100, Hugo van der Kooij wrote: Yeah. I have stumbled over the same feature. Even after reading the manual from cover to cover. So I would suggest to add a comment to the default sample config file that this particular option is for windows only. I think

[Pdns-users] IPv6 testers wanted for snapshot4!

2008-02-10 Thread bert hubert
Hi IPv6 friends, Since the root zone now contains records, as do many TLD zones, I've given our IPv6 support a lot of love. Please test http://svn.powerdns.com/snapshots/pdns-recursor-3.1.5-snapshot4.tar.bz2 It should be *completely* IPv6/IPv4 agnostic, in that it can resolve domains like

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