[Pdns-users] Some question about DNSDist

[Ruben Kerkhof]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Ruben Kerkhof <ruben at rubenkerkhof.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Thao Nguyen <devilsmile86 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I downloaded and re-used rpm from powerdns repo for el7. It is the same with
>> rpm that I yum from my centOS.
>
> No it isn't. One comes from the EPEL repositories, and is packaged by
> Fedora maintainers, the other one is provided by PowerDNS.
> There might be packaging differences between the two.
>
> The dnsdist package from powerdns has pdns in the name:
> dnsdist-1.0.0-1pdns.el7.x86_64.rpm

Just to verify, the dnsdist package from EPEL works:

$ sudo dnsdist
Unable to read configuration from '/etc/dnsdist/dnsdist.conf'
Listening on 127.0.0.1:53
dnsdist 1.0.0 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
ACL allowing queries from: 127.0.0.0/8, 10.0.0.0/8, 100.64.0.0/10,
169.254.0.0/16, 192.168.0.0/16, 172.16.0.0/12, ::1/128, fc00::/7,
fe80::/10
No downstream servers defined: all packets will get dropped
> testCrypto()
Everything is ok!
> ^Druben at dev-ruben: ~$ rpm -q dnsdist
dnsdist-1.0.0-1.el7.x86_64

Kind regards,

Ruben