[Pdns-users] Running pdns alongside pdns-recursor on the same host

[Daniel L. Miller]

On 6/7/2012 2:38 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>
> However, coming from BIND, my mind is transfixed with the single 
> daemon which can do both authoritative and recursion (selectively). 
> Does it mean that with pdns, I have to run at minimum THREE separate 
> servers - one master, one slave, one recursor?

In the DNS world, I've seen two implementation paradigms:  combined 
daemon (BIND, dnsMasq) vs separate authoritative and recursors (djbdns, 
PowerDNS).  I am no security expert - but it seems like the "newer" DNS 
implementations use separate daemons.  Having dedicated daemons means 
each can be optimized for its particular task:  either retrieving fixed 
answers from a storage backend and serving them as rapidly as possible, 
or communicating with other servers and caching the results.  It also 
means upgrades or changes can be done to one service without affecting 
the other.

Whether or not you have the server processes running on the same machine 
is up to you.  If you require a slave authoritative server - you can 
also have a secondary recursor - which means (heavens!) FOUR separate 
server processes on various machines.

The question is not, why doesn't PowerDNS implement its services the 
same way BIND does.  The question is does PowerDNS solve your DNS needs 
in an efficient & reliable manner.  Traditionally, IMHO, in the UNIX 
world, multiple dedicated function processes are preferred to monolithic 
daemons.  Windows may be different.
-- 
Daniel