[Pdns-users] Why prefer recursor answers over auth Authoritative answers?

2009-02-04 Thread David Sparks
Why does PowerDNS auth server not answer queries that it is both authoritative for, and has an answer for in its auth server when recursion is available and requested? Background: I have setup a PowerDNS installation to replace a BIND installation. We have run a split-horizon setup in BIND that

Re: [Pdns-users] Why prefer recursor answers over auth Authoritative answers?

2009-02-05 Thread David Sparks
David Sparks wrote: > Why does PowerDNS auth server not answer queries that it is both authoritative > for, and has an answer for in its auth server when recursion is available and > requested? I've found a Debian bug report that suggests this is a long standing problem with Powerdns: http://bugs

Re: [Pdns-users] Why prefer recursor answers over auth Authoritative answers?

2009-02-05 Thread Leen Besselink
Hi David, >> Why does PowerDNS auth server not answer queries that it is both authoritative >> for, and has an answer for in its auth server when recursion is available and >> requested? I did see you e-mail yesterday and I waited for someone knowledgable to try and answer this, because I just kn

Re: [Pdns-users] Why prefer recursor answers over auth Authoritative answers?

2009-02-05 Thread Augie Schwer
We have many machines that have both the PowerDNS authoritative server and the PowerDNS recursor; we don't have this problem. What version of the auth. and recursive server are you running? --Augie On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:22 PM, David Sparks wrote: > David Sparks wrote: >> Why does PowerDNS aut

Re: [Pdns-users] Why prefer recursor answers over auth Authoritative answers?

2009-02-05 Thread Sean Boran
Hi, I cannot answer the recursive query, but I'm am also designing a setup to replace Bind with split zones. The idea was to replace bind entirely. Maybe we should share some design ideas? Current I have two internet ns with bind, with an an internal and external zone. a) Internal master: pow

Re: [Pdns-users] Why prefer recursor answers over auth Authoritative answers?

2009-02-06 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 07:43:51AM +0100, Sean Boran wrote: > Hi, > > I cannot answer the recursive query, but I'm am also designing a setup to > replace Bind with split zones. The idea was to replace bind entirely. Maybe > we should share some design ideas? > > Current I have two internet ns wit

Re: [Pdns-users] Why prefer recursor answers over auth Authoritative answers?

2009-02-06 Thread David Sparks
Augie Schwer wrote: > We have many machines that have both the PowerDNS authoritative server > and the PowerDNS recursor; we don't have this problem. What version of > the auth. and recursive server are you running? --Augie I'm running: pdns-2.9.21.2.tar.gz pdns-recursor-3.1.6.tar.bz2 Are you s

Re: [Pdns-users] Why prefer recursor answers over auth Authoritative answers?

2009-02-06 Thread Augie Schwer
I am sure allow-recursion-override is set to "no"; it may help to run the latest code in both cases : http://powerdns.com/en/downloads.aspx pdns-2.9.22 and pdns-recursor-3.1.7 --Augie On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 9:56 AM, David Sparks wrote: > Augie Schwer wrote: >> We have many machines that have b

Re: [Pdns-users] Why prefer recursor answers over auth Authoritative answers?

2009-02-06 Thread David Sparks
Sean Boran wrote: > Hi, > > I cannot answer the recursive query, but I'm am also designing a setup > to replace Bind with split zones. The idea was to replace bind entirely. > Maybe we should share some design ideas? Sure, my setup is a bit different. I am setting up dns for a company lan that h