excellent tutorial. How much harder is to setup a Bind (master) / Powerdns (slave)? Im getting crazy to achieve that.

Thanks

Kind regards,
Vegard

Thanks for the tips, I will double check my installation, and see if there is any inconstancy! Monitor says that it loads up gmysql-module fine, and that it accept connections. Other than that monitor gives me the standard output you’d expect, like opening up UDP-connections, and denying alot of recursor-requests from misc. Internet drones.

They are not running as recursor, as these nameservers is supposed to only serve as … nameservers. This (to my knowledge) should not have anything to do with AXFR. AXFR is actually configured on both servers. I have tried to only have it active on one server at a time too. Could I be wrong?

I’ll try to go over things a few more times and check some documentation (pdns_control), but i might have to take you up on that email ;-)

Kind regards,
Vegard

during the set-up of a new domain name, you’ll add some “NS” records (see above), which specify the master and slave DNS servers of your domain name. This is the relevant configuration. The master server will look at the NS records and initiate an AXFR transfer with the slaves, if everything is set up correctly.
Have a look at the DB and check that all the records are there. Check that everything is set up correctly. What does the log file/monitor mode output of PowerDNS say?

There is also a tool called pdns_control (see http://doc.powerdns.com/pdns-internals.html#PDNSCONTROL for more info) that you can use to trigger a notify on demand and have PowerDNS rediscover the database, etc. Check if that works. Normally this should not be necessary, though. If you can’t get it to work at all, feel free to send me a mail and I’ll have a look.

Cheers!

:-) Patrick

Kind regards,
Vegard Hansen