[Pdns-users] Getting started with pdns

[Gerald Britton]

Ah -- so I should modify resolv.conf to point to localhost, right?  If
so, that leads to an interesting problem, since resolv.conf is updated
by dhcp.  Also, I've seen the nameservers in resolv.conf change from
time to time.  Any idea how to get around this?

On 1/18/07, bert hubert <bert.hubert at netherlabs.nl> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 12:30:53PM -0500, Gerald Britton wrote:
> > Oh, I get it, only pdsn_recursor is running!  So I used rec_control to
> > dump the cache, which only has the basic entries.  Then I did a bunch
> > of host commands (cnn.com, powerdns.com, etc) to try to get some more
> > in there, but when I was done, nothing had been added to the cache,
> > which now is:
>
> Good. Try sending queries to your pdns_recursor explicitly. Take note which
> IP address it is listening on when you start, and send some queries its way,
> like this:
>
> dig www.poweredns.com @127.0.0.1
> or
> host www.powerdns.com 127.0.0.1
>
> By default 'dig' and 'host' etc send their queries to the address configured
> in /etc/resolv.conf, which may not point at 127.0.0.1.
>
>         Bert
>
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