<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Since the PowerDNS Recursor and PowerDNS Authoritative server are two different products, you’ll need to run both anyway.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Run the recursor listening only on IP#1 (using the local-address setting) and the authoritative server listening only on IP#2 (using the local address setting).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">During your transition phase you can use the forward-zones setting in the recursor on IP#1 to forward requests for specific domains to the auth server on IP#2.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is assuming I understood your question.<br class=""><div class="">—</div><div class="">Dan Campbell<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><div class="">On May 9, 2015, at 11:05 PM, <a href="mailto:ggiesen+powerdns@giesen.me" class="">ggiesen+powerdns@giesen.me</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I’m currently planning a project to split recursion from authoritative DNS (they currently reside on the same IP).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">As part of the project, I’d like to set up a second IP for PowerDNS to listen on (which will be the IP for the authoritative server; the recursive server will remain on the existing IP). The transition strategy is that IP #1 (the existing IP) will answer both recursive and authoritative queries until such time as all the domains have been migrated to use the new IP #2. IP#2 will answer only authoritative queries.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">However I’ve run into a snag. I can’t find any way to have PowerDNS answer recursion queries on only the IP #1 (I can only limit what IPs the queries come from, but not to). Am I missing something, is there a way to do what I’m looking to do? Or is the only solution to run separate instances of pdns (with separate config files both connecting to the same backend).<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Cheers,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class="">GTG<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Pdns-users mailing list</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="mailto:Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com</a><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users</a></div></div><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>