We, along with some customers, have our authoritative DNS setup with 1 PowerDNS master(which is unreachable over the internet), running poweradmin, and 2 BIND9 slaves(which are ns1 and ns2). This setup works great, but there is a bug in (older versions of) PowerAdmin and one in BIND that together can cause some havoc.

Sometimes you need to hack up some code to work around some network problems. Sometimes you’re not very proud of it, but you want to share your solution nonetheless. This is one of those ugly solutions…