Unable to change powerdns configuration because cPanel is resetting my changes

[rscalover]

Hello,

so i open /etc/pdns/pdns.conf and change whatever i like to change after that save the file and issue /scripts/restartsrv_pdns powerds restarts but i receive notifications from cPanel from some service called "migrate-pdns-conf" why ?? i'm angry at you cPanel

i tryed to change who is allowed to access the powerdns build in webserver so ....

webserver-allow-from=127.0.0.0/8,my_ip_here

but it seems cPanel doesn't like it.

 

[quietFinn]

in /etc/pdns/pdns.conf I see this:

#################################
# include-dir   Include *.conf files from this directory
#
# include-dir=

does that help you out?

 

[rscalover]

in /etc/pdns/pdns.conf I see this:

#################################
# include-dir   Include *.conf files from this directory
#
# include-dir=

does that help you out?

No that causes errors powerdns fails to restart

 

[cPRex]

Can you let me know specifically when you're seeing the configuration change? We have several other guides that recommend editing that file directly, such as this one:

https://support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us/articles/1500013125141-How-to-enable-PowerDNS-s-incoming-DNS-query-logging-

so I would expect the steps you've outlined to work well.

 

[rscalover]

Can you let me know specifically when you're seeing the configuration change? We have several other guides that recommend editing that file directly, such as this one:

https://support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us/articles/1500013125141-How-to-enable-PowerDNS-s-incoming-DNS-query-logging-

so I would expect the steps you've outlined to work well.

Here is a screenshot cPanel does not allow editing of pdns.conf i tryed something like i found here How to generate daily PowerDNS statistics reports – trick77.com but the message body is empty .I would rather have those pretty graphs like this DNS Statistics that's a script for bind though but that is my goal

this does work without problems

log-dns-queries=yes
loglevel=5

i just tryed it hmmm this is getting weird

 

[cPRex]

Are you seeing that only certain options are working while others are not?

 

[rscalover]

Are you seeing that only certain options are working while others are not?

Yes some options work and others don't

 

[cPRex]

That's very odd - could you submit a ticket to our team so we can do some more testing with this on our end?

 

[rscalover]

That's very odd - could you submit a ticket to our team so we can do some more testing with this on our end?

Yes i did 94373489

 

[cPRex]

Thanks for that - I'm following along with that ticket on my end now.

 

[cPRex]

After some research, it looks like PowerDNS has removed both of the options you were trying to implement, api-logfile and api-readonly, in recent updates:

https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/pull/6845
https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/pull/7025

 

[rscalover]

Hello,

Yeah it looks like that looking at this issue it makes me feel like going back to bind as the only thing i'll lose is the DNSSEC support but whole lot easier to get those statistics .

edit
You can change the code in the instructions at How to generate daily PowerDNS statistics reports – trick77.com to

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/curl -s --user powerdns:serverpasswordhere http://127.0.0.1:8081 | mail -s "$(echo "PowerDNS Daily Report\nMIME-Version: 1.0\nContent-Type: text/html")" root

The serverpassword is in /etc/pdns/pdns.conf though in more recent version of powerdns it is hashed