[Pdns-users] DoT for recursor

Djerk Geurts djerk at maizymoo.com
Tue May 9 13:20:18 UTC 2023


Hi Otto,

Thank you, good to know. I use dnsdist at my clients but am working on my lab at the moment where I don’t yet have have dnsdist deployed.

-- 
Djerk Geurts

> On 9 May 2023, at 13:47, Otto Moerbeek <otto at drijf.net> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 01:34:51PM +0100, Djerk Geurts via Pdns-users wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Had a look and the only thing I could find is that DoT apparently is enabled when configuring PowerDNS-recursor with specific upstream servers on port 853.
>> 
>> Being relatively new to DoT and DoH I’m trying to work out why I can’t configure the recursor to listen to port 853 without configuring a specific forwarder. It looks like this is possible for dnsdist, so why not recursor, or am I missing something?
> 
> Recursor 4.8 has a way to discover if an auth supports DoT. See
> https://blog.powerdns.com/2022/06/13/probing-dot-support-of-authoritative-servers-just-try-it/
> 
> Recursor has no incoming DoT or DoH, because it is easy to use dnsdist
> in front of Recursor for that.  So there is little incentive to add
> that functionality to the Recursor itself.
> 
> 	-Otto

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