<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 10, 2012, at 11:37 PM, Rory Toma wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'luxi sans', sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">"To make sure that the local
authoritative database overrides recursive information, PowerDNS
first tries to answer a question from its own database. If that
succeeds, the answer packet is sent back immediately without
involving the recursor in any way. 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! This will only cause problems if you 'fake' domains which
don't really exist.</span>"<br>
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What I want to do is have powerdns consult the recursor even of
powerdns is authoritative for a domain. This is what I can' seem to
get to work.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think we no longer do this, and that the documentation is in that case out of date. It complicated things too badly.</div><div><br></div><div>If you want to override the internet, you may have more success the other way around, put a PowerDNS Recursor with specific authoritative data as an auth server.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Bert</div></div></body></html>