[Pdns-users] Retry NXDOMAIN with a secondary forwarder

[Peter van Dijk]

Hello,

On Jan 9, 2012, at 11:43 , Erik Weber wrote:

>> 
>> I could do that. How difficult would that be? At the moment I wouldn't know
>> where to start.
> 
> Take a look at the sample here: http://doc.powerdns.com/recursor-scripting.html
> 
> You'd have to write some lookup code (to the database) and correctly
> build the return packet.
> The first thing I'd do is make some code that does the lookup when run
> directly, then try to fit that into a PowerDNS-script.
> 
> Some more info at http://wiki.powerdns.com/trac/wiki/Lua

Be aware that the recursor only runs one instance of Lua, and that you should not be doing any blocking operations in it.

Kind regards,
Peter van Dijk