On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:19 PM, davis_jira <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Adriel Torres, > Hey there, > Thanks for the reply. I am aware that it has two packages but I am > wondering > if I could configure the pdns-recursor stand alone to work as > non-recursive? > I guess I can not. > That is correct the only purpose of PowerDNS recursor is to act as a recursive nameserver. Although it has been fitted with the ability to serve static zones (see the forward-zones configuration statement [1]), it does not have a switch to globally disable recursion. On most distributions the PowerDNS recursor uses the /etc/powerdns/recursor.conf file for it's configuration. > > Also could you please tell in brief how does the pdns-server (PowerDNS Auth > Server) works exactly? I am confused after reading so many things on > internet. > > PowerDNS Server (!= recursor) features lots of backends therefore you first need to tell it which backend to fire up and use. [2] The most commonly used is probably the gmysql backend. In order to serve the data from a mysql database you first need to create some tables. [3] PowerDNS Server configuration usually resides in the /etc/powerdns/pdns.conf file. For a simple mysql backend configuration one would put something like the following in there: launch=gmysql gmysql-host=127.0.0.1 gmysql-dbname=mydatabase gmysql-user=pdns gmysql-password=secret However if you are already familiar to the way BIND is doing things maybe you want to do your first steps into PowerDNS land with the bind backend. [4] That would be something like: launch=bind bind-config=/etc/namedb/named.conf - or where your named.conf is situated The bind backend will simply iterate through the zone statements in named.conf and load all zonefiles specified there. [1] http://doc.powerdns.com/built-in-recursor.html#recursor-settings [2] http://doc.powerdns.com/modules.html [3] http://doc.powerdns.com/generic-mypgsql-backends.html#id419487 [4] http://doc.powerdns.com/bindbackend.html#id421440
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