[Pdns-users] Delegated sub-domain behaviour

[Aki Tuomi]

You probably want to either setup a recursor in front of your auth (recommended) or use recursor=ip.of.recursor in pdns.conf

pdns authoritative server does not recurse by default. to get same functionality as your windows dns server, i do recommend putting recursor in front of the
auth server, and configure forward-zones setting for the auth domains. it won't be as automatic, but it works better. 

Aki

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 08:46:28AM +0100, Stephen Dodge wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We are a small MSP looking to move from a Windows DNS environment to PDNS.
> We have two internet facing authoritative pdns servers with a mysql backend.
> Each server also runs pdns-recursor to handle recursive queries for our
> customer subnets.
> 
> All looks okay but I have a query about how delegated sub domains should be
> handled.  For example -
> we are authoritative for  'customer.com'  but our customer has requested a
> delegation for a sub domain to another name server. i.e 'sub.customer.com'.
> We simply have a NS record for sub.customer.com pointed to another dns
> server which is hosted by a third party.
> 
> When I dig the original Windows DNS servers the answer is the A record
> configured on the 3rd part name server.
> When I dig our PDNS server the answer returned is the NS record only.
> When I dig a different recursor which then in turn forwards the query onto
> our PDNS servers the answer is the A record.
> 
> Is this the expected behaviour or should I be able to configure the
> authoritative pdns server to provide a fully recursed answer?
> 
> I appreciate the help.  If you need any other info let me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve

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