<div dir="ltr">--config-dir does not solve my problem with eithe of the control scripts I tested.<div><br></div><div><div><b>Starting PowerDNS recursing nameserver: Apr 09 09:26:09 Unable to parse configuration file '/recursor.conf'</b></div>
<div>Apr 09 09:26:09 PowerDNS recursor 3.5-rc5 (C) 2001-2013 PowerDNS.COM BV (Apr 8 2013, 17:58:48, gcc 4.2.1 20070831 patched [FreeBSD]) starting up</div><div><br></div><div>Apr 09 09:26:09 PowerDNS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it according to the terms</div>
<div>of the GPL version 2.</div><div>Apr 09 09:26:09 Operating in 64 bits mode</div><div>Apr 09 09:26:09 Reading random entropy from '/dev/urandom'</div><div>Apr 09 09:26:09 Only allowing queries from: <a href="http://127.0.0.0/8">127.0.0.0/8</a>, <a href="http://10.0.0.0/8">10.0.0.0/8</a>, <a href="http://100.64.0.0/10">100.64.0.0/10</a>, <a href="http://169.254.0.0/16">169.254.0.0/16</a>, <a href="http://192.168.0.0/16">192.168.0.0/16</a>, <a href="http://172.16.0.0/12">172.16.0.0/12</a>, ::1/128, fe80:</div>
<div>:/10</div><div>Apr 09 09:26:09 Will not send queries to: <a href="http://127.0.0.0/8">127.0.0.0/8</a>, <a href="http://10.0.0.0/8">10.0.0.0/8</a>, <a href="http://100.64.0.0/10">100.64.0.0/10</a>, <a href="http://169.254.0.0/16">169.254.0.0/16</a>, <a href="http://192.168.0.0/16">192.168.0.0/16</a>, <a href="http://172.16.0.0/12">172.16.0.0/12</a>, ::1/128, fe80::/</div>
<div>10, 0.0.0.0, ::</div><div>Apr 09 09:26:09 NOT using IPv6 for outgoing queries - set 'query-local-address6=::' to enable</div><div>Apr 09 09:26:09 Inserting rfc 1918 private space zones</div><div>Apr 09 09:26:09 Listening for UDP queries on <a href="http://127.0.0.1:53">127.0.0.1:53</a></div>
<div>Apr 09 09:26:09 Listening for TCP queries on <a href="http://127.0.0.1:53">127.0.0.1:53</a></div><div>Apr 09 09:26:09 Calling daemonize, going to background</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 9 April 2013 09:15, Peter van Dijk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter.van.dijk@netherlabs.nl" target="_blank">peter.van.dijk@netherlabs.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hello,<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On Apr 8, 2013, at 16:51 , Odhiambo Washington wrote:<br>
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> Question is - how do I pass the config file as a parameter to the recursor in the above startup script (-c? -f) ? Maybe that is one of the problems I need to address. My assumption has been that I don't need to specify it anyway, since the path is built-in during compile.<br>
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</div>Specifying during compile is broken - our apologies for that.<br>
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At run time, you can specify --config-dir to point to a specific dir. The config must be called recursor.conf inside that dir.<br>
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Can you try --config-dir and let me know whether that solves your issue for now?<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Correct me if I am wrong but it would appear that recursor ignores the CONFIGDIR directive when compiling. I have just checked this now by appending "...." and starting it using the init script in the source and it failed to start with:<br>
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> [root@jaribu] ~wash/Tools/PDNS/pdns-recursor-3.5-rc5# ./pdns-recursor.init.d start<br>
> Starting PowerDNS recursing nameserver: Apr 08 17:48:30 Exception: Trying to set unexisting parameter '....'<br>
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> According to me, it should not be looking for this file in /etc/powerdns/, but rather the one in /usr/local/etc/pdns.<br>
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</div>Yes, this is a bug. I will write a ticket about it.<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
--<br>
Peter van Dijk<br>
Netherlabs Computer Consulting BV - <a href="http://www.netherlabs.nl/" target="_blank">http://www.netherlabs.nl/</a><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Best regards,<br>Odhiambo WASHINGTON,<br>Nairobi,KE<br>+254733744121/+254722743223<br>"I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler."<br>
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