How to allow PowerDNS to ignore broken records

Introduction

PowerDNS may sometimes not load a DNS zone due to certain detected failures.

The zones can be seen with the following command:

pdns_control bind-list-rejects

It is recommended to address these, however, if you would like similar functionality to BIND where certain errors in the zone do not cause the zone file to be completely omitted, you may enable similar functionality.

Procedure

Open the PowerDNS configuration file in your preferred text editor:

/etc/pdns/pdns.conf

Locate the following line and set it to "yes"

bind-ignore-broken-records=yes

Finally, restart the DNS server:

/scripts/restartsrv_pdns