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afdev
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 Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2024 5:57 pm Post subject: PDNS doesn't receive any DNS request |
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Hi all,
I have inherited a production server where it was installed PDNS as DNS server.
After a reboot during a kernel upgrade, the DNS server doesn't work anymore...
All the company websites are hosted there and now they are unreachable.
I was trying to get it fixed, but I don't know anymore where should I look.
If someone please could help me out of this, many thanks in advance.
After the reboot it failed to start, I had a socket conflict with postgresql.
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# /etc/init.d/pdns start
* /run/postgresql: correcting mode
* Starting PostgreSQL 12 ... [ ok ]
* /run/postgresql: correcting mode
* Socket conflict.
* A server is already listening on:
* /run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432
* HINT: Change PGPORT to listen on a different socket.
* ERROR: postgresql-13 failed to start
* Starting PowerDNS Authoritative Server ...
* Failed to start PowerDNS Authoritative Server [ !! ]
* ERROR: pdns failed to start
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After that I have managed to solve the problem, stopping the PG 12 and start the 13 one.
But PDNS was not starting, because this time I have found out the backend was not specified in /etc/powerdns/pdns.conf
So, I have setup it:
That's strange, because before the rebooting it was working.
I have checked and I don't have a table for pdns, so I assume postgresql was not used as backend.
If I stop the service and run it standalone I don't see any request coming in.
And of course ping, nslookup, etc... don't work to resolve any domain.
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# pdns_server --control-console --loglevel=5
Feb 21 16:58:53 Loading '/usr/lib64/powerdns/pdns/libbindbackend.so'
Feb 21 16:58:53 This is a standalone pdns
Feb 21 16:58:53 UDP server bound to 0.0.0.0:53
Feb 21 16:58:53 UDP server bound to [::]:53
Feb 21 16:58:53 TCP server bound to 0.0.0.0:53
Feb 21 16:58:53 TCP server bound to [::]:53
Feb 21 16:58:53 PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.3.1 (C) 2001-2020 PowerDNS.COM BV
Feb 21 16:58:53 Using 64-bits mode. Built using gcc 9.3.0 on Oct 12 2020 07:46:06 by portage@obsidian.ad-notam.net.
Feb 21 16:58:53 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.
Feb 21 16:58:53 PowerDNS Security Update Mandatory: Upgrade now, see https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2022-01.html
Feb 21 16:58:53 Creating backend connection for TCP
Feb 21 16:58:53 About to create 3 backend threads for UDP
% Feb 21 16:58:53 Done launching threads, ready to distribute questions
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Any help will be highly appreciated, thank you. |
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freke
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| Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2024 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't know neither pdns nor postgresql - but is network interface(s) up and running as per expected? (ie. ifconfig -a) |
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szatox
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| Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2024 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I have checked and I don't have a table for pdns, so I assume postgresql was not used as backend. |
Why not start with looking ad pdns's config file instead?
There is like a dozen of supported backends, and pdns allows for some setups which can be described as either brilliant or retarded, depending solely on the person asked.
Also: logs. Pdns should log the reason why it failed. In fact, this is the first thing to check, config comes in the second.
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afdev
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| Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2024 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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Yes,
the network was up and running.
In the meanwhile I have "solved" the issue... I have configured the DNS zone using the webinterface of the domains registrar.
szatox,
yes, looking in the logs is the first thing I did, but I didn't find any entry apart of the few lines already posted.
I had a look at the /var/log/messages.
I had a look at the configuration, but I didn't find the location of the log specified there, so I assumed it was logged in the messages.
Anyway, since now the emergency is resolved in some way, I would close the topic.
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