PowerDNS

PowerDNS Server (pdns_server)

Newer version in Ubuntu

If you are living in Ubunbtu xenial and need a newer PowerDNS from Ubuntu zesty, do this:

/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01pinning

APT::Default-Release "xenial";

/etc/apt/preferences.d/pdns

Package: pdns-*
Pin: release a=zesty, l=Ubuntu
Pin-Priority: 1000

Package: pdns-*
Pin: release a=zesty-updates, l=Ubuntu
Pin-Priority: 1000

Package: pdns-*
Pin: release a=zesty-security, l=Ubuntu
Pin-Priority: 1000

/etc/apt/sources.list

add zesty sources. for example:

deb [arch=amd64] http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial          main restricted universe
deb [arch=amd64] http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates  main restricted universe
deb [arch=amd64] http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu    xenial-security main restricted universe
deb [arch=amd64] http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ zesty           main restricted universe
deb [arch=amd64] http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ zesty-updates   main restricted universe
deb [arch=amd64] http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu    zesty-security  main restricted universe

Do the upgrade

# apt update
# apt install pdns-recursor/zesty pdns-tools/zesty libstdc++6/zesty gcc-6-base/zesty

Logging with systemd and syslog-ng

1. Tell the journald of systemd to forward messages to syslog: In /etc/systemd/journald.conf set it from

#ForwardToSyslog=yes

to

ForwardToSyslog=yes

Then restart the journald

# systemctl restart systemd-journald.service

2. Tell syslog-ng to take the dev-log-socket from journald as input:

Change the part in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf from

source s_src {
       system();
       internal();
};

to

source s_src {
       system();
       internal();
       unix-dgram ("/run/systemd/journal/dev-log"); 
};

chroot with systemd

# mkdir -p /var/chroot/run/systemd
# touch /var/chroot/run/systemd/notify

# /etc/systemd/system/var-chroot-run-systemd-notify.mount
[Unit]
After=zfs-mount.service
Requires=var-chroot.mount

[Mount]
What=/run/systemd/notify
Where=/var/chroot/run/systemd/notify
Type=none
Options=bind

or

# /etc/systemd/system/var-chroot-run-systemd-notify.mount
[Unit]
Description=Mount /run/systemd/notify to chroot
DefaultDependencies=no
ConditionPathExists=/var/chroot/run/systemd/notify
ConditionCapability=CAP_SYS_ADMIN
After=systemd-modules-load.service
Before=pdns-recursor.service

[Mount]
What=/run/systemd/notify
Where=/var/chroot/run/systemd/notify
Type=none
Options=bind

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

# /etc/systemd/system/pdns.service.d/override.conf
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/pdns_server --guardian=no --daemon=no --disable-syslog --log-timestamp=no --write-pid=no
CapabilityBoundingSet=CAP_SYS_CHROOT
AmbientCapabilities=CAP_SYS_CHROOT

[Unit]
Wants=local-fs.target

# /etc/systemd/system/pdns-recursor.service.d/override.conf
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/pdns_recursor --daemon=no --write-pid=no --include-dir=/etc/powerdns/recursor.d
CapabilityBoundingSet=CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE CAP_SETGID CAP_SETUID CAP_CHOWN CAP_SYS_CHROOT

[Unit]
Wants=local-fs.target