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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/04/2025 15:38, Curtis Maurand
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<a href="https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/running.html"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/running.html</a>
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<p>That documentation is for PDNS Authoritative. I believe you were
talking about PDNS Recursor, which is a different piece of
software.<br>
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<p>Source release tarballs for both can be found here:</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/">https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/</a></p>
<p>It looks like PDNS Authoritative *does* contain a SysV init
script:<br>
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<p>% tar -tjvf pdns-4.9.4.tar.bz2 | grep contrib<br>
drwxr-xr-x 0 root root 0 6 Feb 15:18
pdns-4.9.4/contrib/<br>
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 2948 6 Feb 15:17
pdns-4.9.4/contrib/powerdns.solaris.init.d</p>
<p>But PDNS Recursor does not:<br>
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<p>% tar -tjvf pdns-recursor-5.2.2.tar.bz2 | grep contrib<br>
drwxr-xr-x 0 root root 0 8 Apr 11:42
pdns-recursor-5.2.2/contrib/<br>
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 1898 8 Apr 11:40
pdns-recursor-5.2.2/contrib/SMF-powerdns-recursor.xml<br>
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 837 8 Apr 11:40
pdns-recursor-5.2.2/contrib/dns64.lua<br>
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 3786 8 Apr 11:40
pdns-recursor-5.2.2/contrib/powerdns-example-script.lua<br>
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 201 8 Apr 11:40
pdns-recursor-5.2.2/contrib/upstart-recursor.conf<br>
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 24473 8 Apr 11:40
pdns-recursor-5.2.2/contrib/syncres.dot<br>
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 1885 8 Apr 11:40
pdns-recursor-5.2.2/contrib/kv-example-script.lua<br>
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