Package: pdns-server
Version: 4.4.1-1
Severity: normal
Hello,
on installation of pdns-server the pdns.service is automatically
started. However in my case port 53 is already bound and so it fails to
start. (That might also happen if port 53 isn't blocked because the
default config isn't suitable to successfully run pdns? I didn't check.)
Because of
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=1
StartLimitInterval=0
in pdns.service the systemd tries to start pdns once per second and for
each try logs something like:
Nov 07 21:41:55 algol systemd[1]: Starting PowerDNS Authoritative
Server...
Nov 07 21:41:55 algol pdns_server[2329737]: Loading
'/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pdns/libbindbackend.so'
Nov 07 21:41:55 algol pdns_server[2329737]: This is a standalone pdns
Nov 07 21:41:55 algol pdns_server[2329737]: Listening on controlsocket
in '/run/pdns/pdns.controlsocket'
Nov 07 21:41:55 algol pdns_server[2329737]: UDP server bound to
0.0.0.0:53
Nov 07 21:41:55 algol pdns_server[2329737]: UDP server bound to [::]:53
Nov 07 21:41:55 algol pdns_server[2329737]: Unable to bind to TCP
socket 0.0.0.0:53: Address already in use
Nov 07 21:41:55 algol pdns_server[2329737]: Fatal error: Unable to bind
to TCP socket
Nov 07 21:41:55 algol systemd[1]: pdns.service: Main process exited,
code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 07 21:41:55 algol systemd[1]: pdns.service: Failed with result
'exit-code'.
Nov 07 21:41:55 algol systemd[1]: Failed to start PowerDNS
Authoritative Server.
Nov 07 21:41:56 algol systemd[1]: pdns.service: Scheduled restart job,
restart counter is at 23.
Nov 07 21:41:56 algol systemd[1]: Stopped PowerDNS Authoritative Server.
to the journal. If you don't notice this immediately and stop the
service this effectively spams your journal in a very short time.
IMHO the above mentioned settings are not suitable as a default for a
distribution's package even if the default configuration worked. It
should be an administrator's choice to configure such a behaviour.
Best regards
Uwe
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.8
APT prefers oldstable-security
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-19-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages pdns-server depends on:
ii adduser 3.118+deb11u1
ii libboost-program-options1.74.0 1.74.0-9
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u7
ii libcurl4 7.74.0-1.3+deb11u10
ii libgcc-s1 10.2.1-6
ii libluajit-5.1-2 2.1.0~beta3+dfsg-5.3
ii libp11-kit0 0.23.22-1
ii libsodium23 1.0.18-1
ii libsqlite3-0 3.34.1-3
ii libssl1.1 1.1.1w-0+deb11u1
ii libstdc++6 10.2.1-6
ii libsystemd0 247.3-7+deb11u4
Versions of packages pdns-server recommends:
ii pdns-backend-bind 4.4.1-1
Versions of packages pdns-server suggests:
ii pdns-backend-bind [pdns-backend] 4.4.1-1
ii pdns-backend-pgsql [pdns-backend] 4.4.1-1
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/powerdns/pdns.conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/powerdns/pdns.conf'
-- no debconf information
