On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Adam Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
> OK, I'm lost...  In v2.3, what service, and/or where in the GUI, should I go
> to make pfSense act as a slave (authoritative) DNS server?
>

No such capability. Neither dnsmasq nor unbound are authoritative
servers. The tinydns and BIND packages were removed as they had no
active maintainers.


> On a related note, in Services / DNS Resolver / General Settings, what does
> "DNS Query Forwarding" do?
> There's no description, so I assume if it's *not* set, unbound starts at the
> root servers, and if is *is* set, unbound tries my upstream ISP's servers
> first (based on the system global DNS settings)?
>

Yes, it forwards queries to the defined DNS servers rather than doing
its own recursion.
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