[Pdns-users] Recursion requested but not available

[Brian Candler]

On 30/12/2017 23:24, Jake Terepocki wrote:
> Hopefully this is the right place, for some reason after reinstalling 
> our PowerDNS and power admin it doesn't seem to be working correctly.
>
> Doing a dig request is giving the error "WARNING: recursion requested 
> but not available"

Which flavour and version of PowerDNS are you using?

If you are talking about the PowerDNS authoritative server, you should 
note that recursion was removed from version 4.1.0.  You now must run 
separate authoritative and recursive servers.

Some scenarios and how to migrate are here:

https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/guides/recursion.html