Hi Ken, On 04/29/2015 02:50 PM, k...@rice.edu wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:26:41AM +0300, Kiki wrote: >> Thanks for the info. I'm stull confused about the meaning of "for questions >> for which there is no answer", in the following paragraph: >> >> This means that for questions for which there is no answer, PowerDNS will >> consult the recursor for an recursive query, even if PowerDNS is >> authoritative for a domain! >> >> >> I thought "an answer" means a record in the PowerDNS database > > But the authoritative server IS authoritative for that zone. What that > means is that if a record does not exist in the zone DB or backend, a > NXDOMAIN will be returned. It will never recurse because it KNOWS that > the item does not exist. That is what authoritative means. You may > want to try querying the recursor first and have it return any needed > private records using Lua and then get the rest from your authoritative > server.
So, what would be an example of a situation where "PowerDNS will consult the recursor for an recursive query, even if PowerDNS is authoritative for a domain"? Apparently such cases exists, otherwise this sentence would not be in the documentation. https://doc.powerdns.com/md/authoritative/recursion/ Best, Peter
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