On Tuesday, December 06, 2016 04:56:58 PM MRob wrote: > On 2016-12-06 16:23, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 07:20:41PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: > >> > Having removed ipv6 from the question, I get the error I quoted above > >> > even for domains that do resolve using "dig" from the CLI of the same > >> > host. Why would there be that kind of discrepancy? > >> > >> Not at all, just some intermediate resolver that messes up as I > >> suggested in my first reply. Perhaps powerdns resolvers that assume > >> everyone supports EDNS0, and that break all kinds of lookups. > > > > To be fair to the good folks at PowerDNS, the software in question > > was an alpha version, that Ubuntu should probably not have shipped > > in a prod release. I don't know of any similar issues in actual > > releases of PowerDNS. > > Thank you both for the help. Looks like the only recourse is to stop > using PDNS or install it from source until Ubuntu can provide a > non-alpha product. I'm shocked that they have done such a thing. I > wonder if a post to their mailing list would get the attention of the > right person.
There is almost certainly not a right person. PDNS is in the Universe section of their archive that's community maintained. Unfortunately, the non- Canonical development community in Ubuntu has almost vanished I'm a former member of it myself). Scott K
