[Pdns-users] dnsdist Marking downstream as "down"

[Federico Olivieri]

Hi all,
I'm playing around with dnsdist on my raspberry. My idea is to use it as
load balancer between 2 server. I had a look around and I have implemented
this conf

root at raspberrypi:/etc/dnsdist# cat dnsdist.conf
newServer{address="192.168.0.3"}
newServer{address="5.172.1xx.xx"}

When I start dnsdist I get this message Marking downstream 192.168.0.3:53
as 'down' and seems not working

Dec 17 14:26:46 raspberrypi dnsdist[2434]: Listening on 127.0.0.1:53
Dec 17 14:26:46 raspberrypi dnsdist[2434]: dnsdist 0.0.523g812632e comes
with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to
redistribute it according to the terms of the GPL version 2
Dec 17 14:26:47 raspberrypi dnsdist[2434]: Marking downstream 192.168.0.3:53
as 'down'
Dec 17 14:26:48 raspberrypi dnsdist[2434]: Marking downstream
5.172.120.59:53 as 'down'

Questions:

   1. there is extra conf that I need to do?
   2. How dnsdist recognizes if a server is UP or DOWN

Another question. Is it possible to run dnsdist in the same server that
running pdns-recursor? My understanding is that both use 127.0.0.1 in order
to run and they cannot coexist. maybe there is a way to bind dnsdist to
another interface

Thanks!!!
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