Update fails for subdomain without zones.txt

[sporkman]

I keep getting a "exit_hook returned with non-zero exit code!" if I try to use a subdomain (eg: "foo.i.example.com").

The last bit of output, with or without debug, is a full json-encoded list of all zones.

If I create "zones.txt" and add "i.example.com", everything works fine.

This is FreeBSD 13.3, PowerDNS 4.9.1, bash 5.2.37.

What else can I give you to assist with troubleshooting this? Or is this expected behavior (I'm not totally clear on what the zones.txt file is used for)?

[alainwolf]

The way I understand it, its hard for the script to guess what zone (on the PowerDNS server) a domain name (for which a cert has been requested) belongs to.

foo.i.example.com could be managed by any of the foo.i.example.com, i.example.com or example.com zones.

The zones.txt file gives the script a hint, that foo.i.example.com is managed by the i.example.com zone.

With sudo pdnsutil list-all-zones | sudo tee /etc/dehydrated/zones.txt > /dev/null you should be fine.