Powerdns behind load balancer thinking it's not authoritative

[giggity]

Hello,
We have 2 nameservers:
ns1.domain.com
ns2.domain.com

ns1 = dell r200 (let's call this ip: 192.168.0.2)
ns2 = coyote point load balancer which points to two OLD "joe's brand" servers running old versions of debian/pdns (let's call this ip: 192.168.0.3)
(the two old ones that are working fine are 192.168.0.11 and 192.168.0.12)

The plan is:
- Replace the ns1 r200 with a r410 (up and running/testing currently)
- Replace the tired pair of servers behind the load balancer with two VMs

I have everything installed and slowly testing things. The new nameservers respond when queried directly.

I'm running powerdns on all three. ns1-test is the master and the two VMs are slaves - running mysql replication off ns1.
I'm using another server we have as a recursor.

To test things, I placed one of the VMs behind the load balancer to see how things would fly..

First, I was getting responses like:

reply from unexpected source: 192.168.0.5#53, expected 192.168.0.3#53

I fixed that by adding a route for 192.168.0.5 to go out through the load balancer @ 192.168.0.3

Now, i'm down to my last issue to fix which is non-authoritative errors..

Dec 14 09:18:07 iqb2 pdns[7375]: Not authoritative for 'domain1.com', sending servfail to 123.123.123.123
Dec 14 09:18:22 iqb2 pdns[7375]: Not authoritative for 'domain2.com', sending servfail to 234.234.234.234
Dec 14 09:18:22 iqb2 pdns[7375]: Not authoritative for 'www.domain3.com', sending servfail to 133.133.133.133
Dec 14 09:18:37 iqb2 pdns[7375]: Not authoritative for 'www.domain4.org', sending servfail to 34.34.34.34

(these domains are all set up with my nameservers as primary and secondary)

When I query the load balancer (ns2 ip address), i'll sometimes get a good answer back.. and sometimes it'll say "connection timed out; no servers could be reached".

How do I tell pdns that it's authoritative for the domains?

Thanks

 

[Habbie]

Hi,

PDNS is authoritative as long as it can find SOA records in your configured backend. Are you sure you have your backend configured and filled correctly?

- Peter (PowerDNS developer)

 

[giggity]

Sorry, yes - I figured this out..

Turns out it was running fine and it was telling the truth We have a couple thousand zones and I thought the ones that it was complaining about were still active.

Thanks for such a great product!