[Pdns-users] Request for Help with PowerDNS + Recursor Configuration for Final Year Project

[Nacho Oppo]

Thanks  William,

I answer you between the lines

1. This is bad practice.

It may be a bad practice, but it is the chosen one and it is the one that I
hope will give me the approval.


2. The goal of an assignment can’t be to have someone else do it for you.
What’s the point?

I am clear that it has to be this way, I need to understand it in order to
explain it.


3. What have you tried? “It doesn’t work” doesn’t indicate any effort.

I've installed and uninstalled the software several times, run separate
tests on the DNS server, and it resolves the names I put in the database.
However, the moment I try to add another DNS server to resolv.conf, it
stops responding to local DNS servers and goes online to look for them.
When I installed the Recursor, things got even worse because, despite not
having another DNS server in resolv.conf or the config, the service
resolved names for me, and I don't really understand how it did it.

4. Should a Computer Science assignment really be this high-level?

They proposed it to me and I thought it wouldn't be as complicated as it's
turning out to be.

Nacho.

El mié, 7 may 2025 a las 10:27, William Edwards via Pdns-users (<
pdns-users at mailman.powerdns.com>) escribió:

> 1. This is bad practice.
> 2. The goal of an assignment can’t be to have someone else do it for you.
> What’s the point?
> 3. What have you tried? “It doesn’t work” doesn’t indicate any effort.
> 4. Should a Computer Science assignment really be this high-level?
>
> William Edwards
>
> > Op 7 mei 2025 om 10:04 heeft Nacho Oppo via Pdns-users <
> pdns-users at mailman.powerdns.com> het volgende geschreven:
> >
> > 
> > Dear "PowerDNS MailGroup",
> >
> > My name is Nacho, and I am a university student currently studying
> Computer Science. I’m working on my final-year project, which involves
> setting up a system that allows resolution of personal names using PowerDNS.
> >
> > The goal is to configure PowerDNS so that it first checks an A record in
> a MySQL backend, and if the record is not found o if database does´not
> respond, it should forward the query to an external DNS server, such as
> Google’s (8.8.8.8).
> >
> > From what I’ve read, this setup used to be possible directly with
> PowerDNS, but now it seems that the use of a separate PowerDNS Recursor in
> front is required. I’ve tried configuring it myself, but unfortunately, I
> haven’t been able to make it work properly.
> >
> > If someone could share a working configuration for both PowerDNS
> Authoritative and PowerDNS Recursor (for the current versions), or point me
> to a complete example, I would be truly grateful.
> >
> > Thank you in advance for your time and help.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Nacho
> >
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