[Pdns-users] Best practice for serving a few public domains + auth/recursion for VMs & VPN clients

[Thomas Mieslinger]

Internet -> auth (for serving the public zones)

does also work

VMs/VPN clients -> recursor (put internal zones in forward.zones) ->auth

Cheers Thomas

On 10/4/21 2:44 PM, Patrick Laimbock via Pdns-users wrote:
> Hi,
>
> New to the list & PowerDNS. Pleased to meet you. I have about 50
> domains, 10 VMs and 10 VPN clients I would like to setup DNS for. I went
> through DuckDuckGo and a bunch of ML archives but did not find any hints
> of a best practice architecture for this small setup. I did find:
>
> https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/guides/recursion.html#scenario-2-authoritative-server-as-recursor-for-clients-and-serving-public-domains
>
>
> Is this deduction of scenario 2 "New situation" pic on the right correct?
>
> Internet -> dnsdist -> auth (for serving the public zones)
> VMs/VPN clients -> dnsdist -> auth (for public/private zones)
> VMs/VPN clients -> dnsdist -> recursor -> Internet (for the rest)
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best,
> Patrick
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