On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:08:15PM +0100, Tobias Winter wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm not particulary used to configuring a nameserver, so I will first > state what I'm trying to accomplish and how I intend to get the job > done. Please correct me, if I am misguided in some way or just missed > something obvious in the documentation. > > For my private needs I set up two PDNS nameservers with mysql backend. > Both servers are running 2.9.22 from Debian testing and are synced via > mysql replication. Therefore neither server is configured as master or > slave. > > The setup works well within my expectations. It resolves records it has > and is authoritative for and recurses to another nameserver for stuff it > doesn't have. > > I'm now trying to get it to forward requests for specific zones to other > nameservers. In my understanding one would simply supply a NS record for > e.g. test.de . If now a client would query an A record for e.g. > www.test.de the nameserver would happily go to the server stated in the > NS record for test.de and return the results. > > In my case the server doesn't query the foreign nameserver but queries > the recursor and of course returns that the record is not present. > > Could someone open my eyes to the thing I'm obviously missing? > > Cheers > > Tobias >
Hi Tobias, Assuming that you are using pdns-recursor-3.1.7.2 (you should be), you need to add the 'forward-zone=...' option or if you have more than a couple of zones the 'forward-zones-file=file-to-read-for-zones' option in your recursor.conf file. Regards, Ken _______________________________________________ Pdns-users mailing list Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users