[Pdns-users] Unable to launch, no backends configured for querying

Anshuman S. Rawat asr at cs.columbia.edu
Fri Sep 17 13:11:46 UTC 2004


> Anshuman S. Rawat wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I just finished building pdns from source. In the documentation, it says
>> "To
>> test, edit pdns.conf and add the following if not already present:
>> launch=bind ; bind-example-zones " .
>>
>> I can't find pdns.conf anywhere?? Without doing the above, if I execute
>> "/etc/init.d/pdns monitor" I get an error - "Unable to launch, no
>> backends
>> configured for querying".
>>
>> Anyone knows where this mysterious file pdns.conf is ? or do I have to
>> create it?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>
> There is probably an example pdns.conf in /usr/local/etc.
> What places have you searched?

Is pdns.conf-dist an example conf file ? I did a search for pdns.conf in
the entire file system.


>
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