No SOA found for domain

[swartjie]

Hey Guys

After I created a domain and some records. When I now try to delete the records, I get a message No SOA found for domain 'testmydomain.co.za.'

What might be causing this as there is an soa record for the domain in the database?

[trizz]

Can you give an example of your code? Without it, it is difficult for us to tell if there's a bug or something.

[swartjie]

I think it may be something in the way I am calling the api...
The issue only seems to jump up with the main domain's record.

How should I call the api?
I am calling it like this for example, then nothing happens, or the error above jumps up (it looks like it's a bit random between the two).

$powerdns = new Powerdns($user->Server->hostname, $user->Server->api_key);
$zone = $powerdns->zone('test2.co.za');
$zone->find('test2.co.za')->delete();

So this for example is to delete the A record (the primary A record for the domain)

[swartjie]

Deleting the sub records though have no issue, so I suspect it's only the @ records that I may be handling incorrectly?

[trizz]

Thanks for your example. It seems there's a bug in the find method: strictly speaking, you always need canonical zone names (ending with a dot; test2.co.za.). To keep things simple, the package will handle this for you. In this case, a sub record will be 'transformed' to www.test2.co.za. while test2.co.za should be transformed to test2.co.za., however, this doesn't happen.

Having said that, you're using a find without setting a record type, so it returns all records matching the name. In this case, also the SOA and NS records are being returned by PowerDNS (and in a real-world scenario probably also the MX records). Calling the delete method, will also delete those records which could explain the No SOA error. For example, if the SOA record is removed before the NS record and the NS record (or the A record) is removed, PowerDNS can no longer update the SOA record.

So this problem has two sides:

1. When using find('test2.co.za') you shouldn't get any results due to a bug in this library;
2. It seems you do get results, but too much. This can be solved by adding a record type to the find method:
   ->find('test2.co.za', RecordType:A) which will only return the A records and not the NS, SOA, MX, etc. records for that zone.

In my test script, this is working as expected:

$powerdns = new Powerdns($user->Server->hostname, $user->Server->api_key);

// use the full canonical name ending with a dot |
//                                               V
$powerdns->zone('test2.co.za')->find('test2.co.za.', RecordType::A)->delete();

We're going to fix this in an upcoming release, but until then you can use the example above as a workaround.

[swartjie]

Thank you for explaining bud. I have added the flag. Was actually thinking of adding it as I thought it may contribute. But it's awesome to know what the actual issue is thank you :).