[Pdns-users] pdns-recursor.

[Chet Nichols III]

Ah yeah that totally works too- just putting all 4 IPs on the box and
loading up each instance on it's own IP. Lot less work to do that way :D

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Brad Dameron <Brad.Dameron at clearwire.com>
wrote:

>  Yes these are behind load balancers. And I am going to put each instance
> on a seperate IP since they are NATed. I thought I had read something about
> renaming the startup script and when you start it looks for the matching
> config file. But I didn't see that in the script itself.
>
> Thanks,
> Brad
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Chet Nichols III [mailto:chet.nichols at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tue 3/25/2008 4:29 PM
> *To:* Brad Dameron
> *Cc:* pdns-users at mailman.powerdns.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Pdns-users] pdns-recursor.
>
> if you want to run four separate, completely independent instances with no
> forking/parent, just starting up each one individually, you'll need to
> change the local-port in each recursor.conf to be unique from the others.
> one can run on 53, 54, ..., and from there, you'll need to set up something
> in front that handles layer 4 switching/port translation, and configure 4
> virtual IPs on the switch/router, all configured to accept on 53, to do a
> port translate from the virtual ip:port to the physical ip:port of wherever
> it would be directed to.
> for example, your switch/router would have the following virtual >
> physical mappings:
>
> ns1.clearwire.com:53 > big-ns-box.clearwire.com:53
> ns2.clearwire.com:53 > big-ns-box.clearwire.com:54
> ns3.clearwire.com:53 > big-ns-box.clearwire.com:55
> etc..
>
> not sure what capabilities you have, but thats how we'd do it. if anyone
> else has any other ways of doing it, feel free to share.
>
> then again, this is more of a sysadmin/networking type question and not a
> pdns-specific question, so i dont want the list to get flooded :)
>
> thanks!
>
> chet
>
>  On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Brad Dameron <Brad.Dameron at clearwire.com>
> wrote:
>
> >  I've looked over the docs and not sure how I can run multiple
> > pdns-recursors. We are moving to dual dual-core servers and would like to
> > run multiple recursor instances. I know about the fork process but would
> > prefer to run 4 seperate instances. I know this will require 4 configs but
> > was hoping there was a simple way to handle this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brad Dameron
> >
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