PowerDNS config files wrong???

[peri0603]

hi folks!

 

I want use PowerDNS as the only (master) dns server on my machine...

 

But when i look at the config files that froxlor generates under config > choose distro (debian 6.0) > nameserver > power dns there is something wrong...

 

I made the following steps:

 

First i installed powerdns server

 

#apt-get install pdns-server (I didn't install froxlor via APT; i installed it manually via froxlor tarball so i haven't installed BIND on my system)

 

then froxlor > settings > Nameserver settings

 

the field "Bind config directory i change from /etc/bind to /etc/powerdns

 

i also change the field Bind reload command to /etc/init.d/pdns force-reload and set the name servers in the field Nameservers

 

i got from my serverprovider.

 

froxlor then generates then the following config files under config > choose distro (debian 6.0) > nameserver > power dns

 

/etc/powerdns/pdns.conf:

 

allow-recursion=127.0.0.1

config-dir=/etc/powerdns ##----------------- I think this is wrong???

daemon=yes

guardian=yes

launch=bind

lazy-recursion=yes

local-port=53

master=yes

module-dir=/usr/lib/powerdns ##----------------- that's also wrong?; there is no such file under /usr/lib/powerdns

setgid=pdns

setuid=pdns

socket-dir=/var/run

version-string=powerdns

bind-config=/etc/powerdns/named.conf ##----------------- that's also wrong; this is the BIND config file??? (normally under /etc/bind/named.conf)

bind-check-interval=300

include=/etc/powerdns/pdns_froxlor.conf

 

/etc/powerdns/pdns_froxlor.conf

 

allow-axfr-ips=109.239.48.251,109.239.48.250,109.239.49.251

#local-ipv6=YOUR_IPv6_(if_any)

bind-config=/etc/powerdns/named.conf ##----------------- also the config file for BIND?

bind-check-interval=180

log-dns-details=yes

local-address=109.239.48.xxx,127.0.0.1 ##----------------- here i made xxx for security reason

 

I looked also under /var/log/daemon.log

 

Aug 16 15:59:43 j14838 pdns[2186]: Listening on controlsocket in '/var/run/pdns.controlsocket'

Aug 16 15:59:43 j14838 pdns[2190]: Guardian is launching an instance

Aug 16 15:59:43 j14838 pdns[2190]: Reading random entropy from '/dev/urandom'

Aug 16 15:59:43 j14838 pdns[2190]: Unable to launch, no backends configured for querying

Aug 16 15:59:44 j14838 pdns[2186]: Child requested a stop, exiting

Aug 16 16:00:48 j14838 pdns[2205]: Listening on controlsocket in '/var/run/pdns.controlsocket'

Aug 16 16:00:48 j14838 pdns[2209]: Guardian is launching an instance

Aug 16 16:00:48 j14838 pdns[2209]: Reading random entropy from '/dev/urandom'

Aug 16 16:00:48 j14838 pdns[2209]: Unable to launch, no backends configured for querying

Aug 16 16:00:49 j14838 pdns[2205]: Child requested a stop, exiting

Aug 16 16:06:49 j14838 pdns[2221]: Listening on controlsocket in '/var/run/pdns.controlsocket'

Aug 16 16:06:49 j14838 pdns[2225]: Guardian is launching an instance

Aug 16 16:06:49 j14838 pdns[2225]: Reading random entropy from '/dev/urandom'

Aug 16 16:06:49 j14838 pdns[2225]: This is a guarded instance of pdns

Aug 16 16:06:49 j14838 pdns[2225]: UDP server bound to 109.239.48.xxx:53

Aug 16 16:06:49 j14838 pdns[2225]: UDP server bound to 127.0.0.1:53

Aug 16 16:06:49 j14838 pdns[2225]: TCP server bound to 109.239.48.xxx:53

Aug 16 16:06:49 j14838 pdns[2225]: TCP server bound to 127.0.0.1:53

Aug 16 16:06:49 j14838 pdns[2225]: PowerDNS 2.9.22 © 2001-2009 PowerDNS.COM BV (Sep 24 2010, 14:35:45, gcc 4.4.5 20100913 (prerelease)) starting up

Aug 16 16:06:49 j14838 pdns[2225]: PowerDNS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it according to the terms of the GPL version 2.

Aug 16 16:06:49 j14838 pdns[2225]: Creating backend connection for TCP

Aug 16 16:06:49 j14838 pdns[2225]: Error parsing bind configuration: Unable to open '/etc/powerdns/named.conf': No such file or directory ##------Here is the error; should i create this file???

Aug 16 16:06:49 j14838 pdns[2225]: Caught an exception instantiating a backend, cleaning up

Aug 16 16:06:49 j14838 pdns[2225]: TCP server is unable to launch backends - will try again when questions come in: Unable to open '/etc/powerdns/named.conf': No such file or directory ## ------again error

Aug 16 16:06:49 j14838 pdns[2225]: Master/slave communicator launching

Aug 16 16:06:49 j14838 pdns[2225]: About to create 3 backend threads for UDP

Aug 16 16:06:49 j14838 pdns[2225]: All slave domains are fresh

Aug 16 16:06:49 j14838 pdns[2225]: No master domains need notifications

Aug 16 16:06:49 j14838 pdns[2225]: Done launching threads, ready to distribute questions

 

 

I think this is a bug in froxlor; my version of froxlor is 0.9.22

 

Thanks for suggestions...

[philnate]

Hi,

 

At first I'm not familiar with powerdns nor bind. But from a quick look it seems that froxlor configured powerdns that way that it simply parses a bind file. I guess you have to copy the bind.conf you get from the configuration setting to named.conf as this is the bind file powerdns parses. If you want powerdns to use it's native configuration you have to do it yourself (if you should please return your solution so froxlor can offer a native powerdns configuration).

 

The changes you made to those bind fields within froxlor look plausible and it seems to do what you want, but I can't tell if it's really correct.

 

Hope that helps