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Questions tagged [powerdns]
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Amazon Route 53 DNSSEC support
We are trying to decide which DNS hosting solution to use. Today we use Power DNS and we want to move to a hosted DNS solution. The best solution for us would be using Amazon's Route 53 for this.
We are mandated to use DNSSEC for our DNS solution…

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PowerDNS and CNAME to external domain
I'm using PowerDNS (2.9.22) for my clients. Because it can store all data into MySQL database and it's easy for clients to edit their zones as they like.
Now I have a problem with CNAMEs:
Here are records into MySQL…

Andrey Zentavr
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Inserting A records using the PowerDNS REST api
I have an issue with the web interface. I'm using powerdns v3.4.5 with mysql as the back-end.
I have followed instructions from here:
https://www.unixmen.com/how-to-install-powerdns-on-ubuntu-14-04/
I have successfully installed powerdns with mysql…

Hossein
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PowerDNS error 400 when trying to add domain
I am currently trying to setup powerDNS with mysql as backend and powerDNS Admin. I was able to login in powerDNS Admin and can edit user and change settings. However upon trying to add a domain, it shows error 400.
I tried capturing the error from…

user13539846
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PowerDNS - DNSQuestion is always nil
I have setup a PowerDNS (4.0.4-1+deb9u4) upon Debian 9 with a MySQL backend successfully and the system was resolving hosts correctly. I am attempting to add scripting to the recursor and have used the examples, Lua script examples. I have pointed…

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Parsing Private-Key format 1.2 with Python 3
Working with DNSSEC and PowerDNS I am trying to parse a Private Key format 1.2 with Python so I can get the corresponding Public key.
Using pydnssec ( https://github.com/tomas-mazak/pydnssec ) I was able to generate the private key.
They key looks…

Wido den Hollander
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Powerdns Subdomain & Delegation
I'm using PowerDNS authoritative server and pdns-mysql-backend.
And I 'm trying to create a subdomain and delegate the external NS to it.
But I can't find a proper doc or example for it. I just need to create NS records for subdomain?
1.…

Eryn Kim
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powerdns + mongodb
I was trying to compile the mongodbbackend module for powerdns but I'm stuck with this problem:
In file included from mongodbbackend.cc:18:
mongodbbackend.hh: At global scope:
mongodbbackend.hh:109: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘auto_ptr’…

shoen
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Unable to add new zone/domain in PowerDNS using API
I was trying to add new zone using following:
curl -X POST --data '{"name":"saugat.local", "kind": "Master","dnssec":false,"soa-edit":"INCEPTION-INCREMENT","masters": [], "nameservers": ["ns1.saugat.local"]}' -v -H 'X-API-Key: changeme'…

Saugat Nepal
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Log Refused DNS Queries in dnsdist using DNSTap
I have a simple DNSDIST Setup with DNSTap configured.
What I want is to be able to LOG DNS Queries that were blocked. Right now, I'm only seeing responses of DNSTap with successful queries + Client Queries of the the domains that were blocked…

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Is there any method so that i can get the client public IP in dns query
I have configured the PowerDNS server with a recursor server, I want to put some domain filtering process on the basis of client IP.
hence I want
Anytime a client making a request, so its dns-query must be with client's public IP, using that I can…

abhi
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What is the better way to healthcheck powerdns?
Somewhere on internet I saw next example for healthcheck inside docker-compose.yml for monitoring PowerDNS:
healthcheck:
test: [ "CMD", "host", "-W", "1", "-t", "AAAA", "www.google.com", "172.22.22.23" ]
interval: 35s
timeout:…

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Timeout Issues inside Kubernetes Cluster Powerdns
I'm running PowerDNS recursor inside my k8s cluster. My python script is on a different pod that is doing rdns to my powerdns rescursor app. I have my hpa Max replica set to 8. However, I do not think the load is the problem here. I'm unsure what to…

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Flux calculate rate per second using sample interval
The following Flux gives me DNS queries per second, but I'd like to not have a static value for the measurement interval (10 sec in the code below). How could this be done, is there a variable that can be used for this or is there a way to calculate…

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external-dns in multiple clusters don't update PowerDNS as expected
I am hitting an issue where I could use some help. I have 2 single-node K8s clusters, each running external-dns, and a VM running PowerDNS. The external-dns is installed with different txtOwnerId in each cluster like this:
helm install --set…

SundarNadathur
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