[Pdns-users] Fallback to recursor if authoritative fails

[Saad Ismail]

Hi Nico,

Thank you for your response.

I am indeed following
https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/guides/recursion.html but stuck with
the fact that recursor requires forward-zones to be explicitly defined in
the recursor configuration file or in forward-zones-file.

Is there any way to automate the process such that all zones from pdns
server are forwarded to pdns server from recursor? I can hack a script to
poll changes in zones from MySQL backend and update forward-zones-file
accordingly but I believe that this might be built-in functionality somehow
because of the major use-case.
Sincerely,
Saad Ismail


On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 11:35 AM Nico CARTRON <nico at ncartron.org> wrote:

> Hi Saad,
>
> On 01-May-2020 05:17 CEST, <pdns-users at mailman.powerdns.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > My use case is such that I have some local as well as TLD domains inside
> > the authoritative server but I would also like to use a recursor so that
> > local clients can send queries for let's say google.com.
> >
> > Is there a way to do this in such a way that I do not have to hard-code
> > forward zones from recursor to authoritative server like on this page:
> > https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/guides/recursion.html#id4
> >
> > From what I understand, this used to be possible out of the box before
> > 4.1.0. How can we achieve this now?
>
> You're probably looking for this: "Migrating from using recursion on the
> Authoritative Server to using a Recursor"
> https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/guides/recursion.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Nico
>
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