PowerDNS master server doesn't notify

Question

I have a PowerDNS based master nameserver with 3 slaves. Zone transfer works through AXFR (automatically once every hour it gets checked by the slaves). When I change a record through our panel the notified_serial gets updated correctly as well as the serial in the SOA record.

The nameserver uses a MySQL backend. The slaves don't get notified when changes occur. Nothing is logged when it was supposed to send a Notify. When I force a notify (like: pdns_control notify example.com) the slaves get notified properly.

The config is as follows:

master=yes
setuid=pdns
setgid=pdns
local-address=xx.xxx.xx.xxx
allow-axfr-ips=xx.xxx.xx.xxx

use-logfile=yes
log-dns-details=yes
log-failed-updates=yes
logging-facility=0
loglevel=4

launch=gmysql
gmysql-host=localhost
gmysql-user=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
gmysql-password=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
gmysql-dbname=powerdns

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 01 '13 at 07:29

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Don't update notified_serial in your panel; powerdns is supposed to update this after it sent the NOTIFY. See update-serial-query in Master/slave queries.

powerdns will send a NOTIFY if it sees notified_serial != SOA.serial.

answered Oct 01 '13 at 07:29

Stefan

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I feel like a idiot.. before we used MySQL replication so I never had any problems with it. It works now! Thanks! – Jona Koudijs Oct 01 '13 at 08:43
I have having same issue and still not fix :( – Satish Aug 30 '18 at 03:04
found issue, issue was `NS` record in master was missing – Satish Aug 30 '18 at 03:22

PowerDNS master server doesn't notify

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