Hello everyone,
I'm new to powerdns, I have switched from tinydns because of issues with recent bind secondaries. The switch has been really straighforward, at least on the surface, as pdns answers every type of query correctly. I'm using the tinydns backend, I've got a single cdb database, compiled from a few different source files.

I'm experiencing some problems.

The first thing I noticed is that I'm unable to send notify to secondaries, after some investigation I understood that each zone needs to be set to primary for this to happen. Also, if I try to force it via pdns_control notify I get No such domain xxx in our database, despite pdns_control list-zones being flawless.

So, I launched pdnsutil check-all-zones and I discovered that for every zone I get:
[Error] Unable to get zone information for zone 'xxx'
Also, for every zone after the first I get:
[Error] Zone ID 4294967295 of 'xxx' in backend tinydns has already been used by zone 'firstzone' in backend tinydns.

I've been unable to determine how pdns assigns zone IDs.

Regarding zone IDs I assume I may have to split the database so that each zone is in a separate file? This is less than desirable as one nice thing about tinydns format is that you define forward and reverse records with a single line whenever you need to, keeping things nicely in sync. Essentially I'd have to butcher my config files.
Is there a way to assign several zone IDs keeping one source cdb?

Also, I assume that if I migrate from tinydns to, say, sqlite, I may be able to run queries on the db to have separate zone IDs even in the case that the migration script doesn't handle them in the first place. However from what I've read that format will not support per-record comments, which I'd rather keep for administrative reasons and a sql db is not as "human readable" as a text file (a lesser evil, but still I'd avoid it if possible).

This is already relatively long so... I'm all ears. Please correct me if what I wrote is wrong.

Thank you very much for your help!
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