[Pdns-users] Use user questions

[lonnie at outstep.com]

I see what you mean....makes since now....

So, you are not running the dnscache and I can take that off of the
machine right?

Thanks again for everyones help.
-- 
Lonnie Cumberland
OutStep Technologies Incorporated
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On Sun, July 3, 2005 16:45, Steve Sobol said:
> lonnie at outstep.com wrote:
>> So then are you saying that I do not need to run the dnscache?
>>
>> If not then I will gladly take it out.
>>
>> As far as the recursor, I thought that was to send the question to
>> the next dns if it is not stored on the current machine.
>
> No.
>
> The pdns server itself only answers queries for records for which it
> is
> authoritative... much like djbdns. It doesn't go fetch answers to
> queries
> for which it is NOT authoritative. That is the job of the recursor.
>
> Here's my config (irrelevant portions snipped):
>
> ---------------------------
>
> config-dir=/etc/powerdns
> daemon
>
> launch=gmysql
> gmysql-host=localhost
> gmysql-user=MY_DATABASE_USER
> gmysql-password=MY_DATABASE_PASSWORD
> gmysql-dbname=pdns
> gmysql-socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
>
> local-address=64.192.186.66
> local-port=53
> recursor=127.0.0.1
>
> ---------------------------
>
> If PDNS gets a query it can't answer itself, it'll send it to the
> recursor,
> which is running on the same server. The recursor will go get the
> answer
> from the appropriate DNS server elswhere on the Internet.
>
> You'll generally want to set allow-recursion to only allow certain
> IPs to
> make recursive queries, too.
>
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