On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 07:21:38PM +0100, Arjan Schrijver wrote: > Hi list, > > After some complaints that our DNS server was not answering all > questions correctly, we found out that our PowerDNS installation thinks > it's authoritative for the root '.' domain. The domain has domain_id 1, > so my guess is that it has been added by the PowerDNS installation. The
It hasn't. It might have been picked up by a migration, possibly by zone2sql. > Can someone explain whether the root domain is needed in our database, > and why? Should it be updated or can I just remove it? > Thanks in advance. Remove it at your earliest opportunity, unless you are an actual root-server for the '.' zone :-) As you've noticed, considering yourself authoritative for the . gives strange results. Good luck! -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed source services _______________________________________________ Pdns-users mailing list Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users
