Julia Evans on Nostr: I've been working on migrating https://messwithdns.net to use PowerDNS as a backend, ...

I've been working on migrating https://messwithdns.net to use PowerDNS as a backend, mostly because there are all kinds of things that I didn’t handle properly in my initial implementation

But the error messages I get from PowerDNS feel a little confusing, for example if I try to add a record when there's already a CNAME there, I get the error "RRset orange.beryl5.messwithdns.com. IN A: Conflicts with pre-existing RRset”

which is _true_, but it doesn't explain what's happening