Thanks for the info. I'm stull confused about the meaning of "for questions for which there is no answer", in the following paragraph:
This means that for questions for which there is no answer, PowerDNS will consult the recursor for an recursive query, even if PowerDNS is authoritative for a domain! I thought "an answer" means a record in the PowerDNS database On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 6:30 PM, k...@rice.edu <k...@rice.edu> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 06:22:02PM +0300, Kiki wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I want to setup a NS to "shadow" a zone on an internal LAN. Basically to > > add private records for the machines on the LAN to an otherwise public > zone. > > > > According to https://doc.powerdns.com/md/authoritative/recursion/ even > if > > the NS thinks it's authoritative for a domain it should still consult the > > recursor for an recursive query if the record is not found in the > database. > > > > I have set both an "allow-recursion" and "recursor" option and it works > for > > queries for which are not considered authoritative like google.com, but > I > > get NXDOMAIN for queries for the "shadowed" zone which are not in the > local > > database > > > > It seems like "lazy-recursion" was the option which would do that but > it's > > been removed. The docs also mention "allow-recursion-override" which is > > also not available anymore > > > > What am I missing? Should I downgrade to an earlier version? > > > > PowerDNS version: 3.4.3 w/ gmysql backend > > OS: CentOS 7 > > > > Thanks, > > Hi, > > The authoritative server is considered authoritative and if an entry is > not present, an NXDOMAIN will be returned. The recursion described in the > manual only applies to items that DO EXIST in the authoritative system. > I suspect that you need to be using the pdns-recursor at the front with > some Lua scripting to handle the local private addresses. > > Regards, > Ken >
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