[Pdns-users] Retry NXDOMAIN with a secondary forwarder

Richard Connon conan at irconan.co.uk
Sun Jan 8 21:30:38 UTC 2012


Wouldn't that mean I'd need the zone data for the entire zone rather 
than just my hosts?

On 08/01/2012 21:09, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> I would suggest you configure an powerdns AUTH server which contains the entire zone
> and use option 'forward=zone.name=auth.server.ip' in recursor.conf instead.
>
> Much cleaner approach.
>
> Aki Tuomi
>
> On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 05:30:51PM +0000, Richard Connon wrote:
>> I want to overlay a set of names onto an existing DNS zone for which
>> I don't control the nameserver.
>> I have a number of names which are "mine" inside a zone managed
>> "higher up" my organisation. The zone also contains lots of names
>> which are not "mine".
>> DNS updates can take over 3 weeks (ridiculous, no?) to happen on the
>> actual organisational nameservers so I want to make a resolver which
>> will reflect our changes immediately.
>>
>> On 07/01/2012 17:24, Peter van Dijk wrote:
>>> Hello Richard,
>>>
>>> On Jan 7, 2012, at 4:45 , Richard Connon wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is it possible through lua scripting or otherwise to configure powerdns to look NXDOMAIN responses up in a second forwarder before returning NXDOMAIN.
>>>> To clarify I'd like it to go something like:
>>>>
>>>> lookup name in NS1
>>>> if found in NS1:
>>>>     return NS1 result
>>>> else:
>>>>     lookup name in NS2
>>>>     return NS2 result
>>> Taking one step back: what actual problem are you trying to solve here?
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Peter van Dijk
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