Adds a second non-HE public secondary that pulls AXFR from dell01 (the
hidden primary at 154.27.180.210) and answers public queries on
ns.supported.systems (64.177.113.227, 2001:19f0:5c00:4daa:5400:6ff:fe2d:38fa).
secondary/
Corefile generated, 84 zones + REFUSED catch-all
docker-compose.yml CoreDNS in host-net mode
Makefile up/down/logs/regen/test/axfr-test
.env / .env.example image pin + bind IPs
scripts/generate-secondary-corefile.sh reads ../zones/*.zone
scripts/notify-he.py → notify-secondaries.py
adds 64.177.113.227 as a second
NOTIFY target alongside HE's
216.218.130.2
Uses CoreDNS's `bind` plugin to avoid colliding with systemd-resolved
on loopback :53. Authoritative-only — non-listed zones get REFUSED, no
recursion. AXFR pull requires opening TCP/53 on dell01's FortiWiFi for
the secondary's IP (manual step, separate from this commit).
Hurricane Electric requires asymmetric transfer config:
- AXFR pull from 216.218.133.2 (slave.dns.he.net / ns4.he.net)
- NOTIFY destination 216.218.130.2 (ns1.he.net)
CoreDNS's transfer plugin uses a single bidirectional `to` list for
both, which is fine in principle but breaks in a confirmed bug: any
`to` with more than one specific IPv4 silently kills server-block
listener startup (no error, zones load, but :53 never binds).
Reproduced on 1.11.3 + 1.12.2 even with a minimal fresh `docker run`.
Workaround:
- Corefile keeps `transfer { to * }` (open AXFR; firewall does the
real source-IP filtering on TCP/53)
- scripts/notify-he.py crafts and sends NOTIFY messages directly to
216.218.130.2 (only). Pure-stdlib Python — no dependencies.
- Makefile `prep` target runs notify-he.py after prepare-zones.sh
so every zone-bump fires NOTIFY automatically.
Verified end-to-end: HE acks NOTIFY (rcode=0) for the 10 zones it
hosts as secondaries; remaining 81 return REFUSED (rcode=5) because
HE doesn't have them configured yet. Note: HE's free slave service
acks NOTIFY but only actually re-pulls AXFR on its hourly poll cycle
(observed behavior — they're poll-based by design). NOTIFY still
useful long-term in case HE changes that behavior; harmless either way.
