Hello Daniel, On Sep 8, 2011, at 11:44 PM, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> Installing on Ubuntu is simple enough - what I was lacking was the EXPLICIT > directions necessary to configure my internal recursor. The key item I found > from the docs, google, and informed guesswork is: > > forward-zones and/or forward-zones-file > > I used the forward-zones file. In particular, I needed to not only list my > authoritative server address for each zone - I also needed to add the > .in-addr.arpa zones. This may SEEM perfectly logical & intuitive to an > experienced DNS admin - especially one who just uses pdns, but I WASN'T > certain. I'm still not certain if I should also be using the auth-zones > parameter for some of these. But everything SEEMS to be working...so far... auth-zones allows you to store the actual zone file on the recursor machine. Whether auth-zones or forward-zones is right for you is up to your design. If forward-zones is working for you now, I would suggest leaving it that way. > I don't know to who I should address this, but I think it would be > extraordinarily helpful to have a simple example in the documentation for > configuring just this: a recursive server which provides both internal > addresses and internet resolution. You have addressed it to the right place. I have made a note of your suggestion :) Kind regards, Peter van Dijk Netherlabs _______________________________________________ Pdns-users mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users
