[Pdns-users] Recursive Forwarders

[Otto Moerbeek]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 09:05:46PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek via Pdns-users wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 02:09:11PM -0400, Holmes, Timothy via Pdns-users wrote:
> 
> > Hi Team,
> > 
> > I have what I hope is a simple question I'm unable to find a better answer
> > for. I would like to add some external forwarders to our recursor
> > instances. These are live running prod instances. I verified the live paths
> > and updated the recursor.config's to reflect
> > 
> > forward-zones-recurse=.=9.9.9.9;149.112.112.112;1.1.1.2;1.0.0.2
> > and also tried forward-zones-recurse=.=9.9.9.9
> > 
> > Each time pushed a restart and verified. Each time the root name hints seem
> > to still be the default behavior including after removing the referenced
> > root hint file entry.
> > 
> > sudo service pdns-recursor restart
> > sudo service pdns-recursor status
> > 
> > Am I missing something obvious, or will the root hints always take
> > precedence?
> > 
> > Thanks, Tim
> > -- 
> > 
> > [image: College of the Holy Cross Logo]
> > 
> > *TIM HOLMES*
> > *Chief Information Security Officer*
> > Information Technology Services
> > tholmes at holycross.edu
> > Pronouns: He/Him/His
> 
> Syntax loogs good. Checks the log, when starting up the recusor logs
> the redirects configged. If it does not do that, you are using another
> config file than you are editing. Maybe an alternate --config-dir?

Also, how do you conclude it is ingnoring the forward-zones-recurse?

	-Otto