Re: [Pdns-users] Why prefer recursor answers over auth Authoritative answers?

2009-02-05 Thread Sean Boran
Hi, I cannot answer the recursive query, but I'm am also designing a setup to replace Bind with split zones. The idea was to replace bind entirely. Maybe we should share some design ideas? Current I have two internet ns with bind, with an an internal and external zone. a) Internal master: pow

[Pdns-users] bind view

2009-02-05 Thread Glen Lumanau
When I put "zone" Example : View "localnet" { Zone "domain.com" } It says syntax error on "zone" lines Because what I know, we can only have an IP address 1 or doing roundrobin for each country What I want to do is, if the IP is coming from ISP "A", then I will g

Re: [Pdns-users] Adding a caching nameserver to an existing secondary DNS server

2009-02-05 Thread Leen Besselink
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > Hello, > Hi, > We have a machine that runs PowerDNS as a slave for a couple of > supermasters. The same machine also functions as a backup MX. I'd like > to add a caching nameserver to this machine to decrease the time needed > for DNS lookups, just for use by l

Re: [Pdns-users] Why prefer recursor answers over auth Authoritative answers?

2009-02-05 Thread Augie Schwer
We have many machines that have both the PowerDNS authoritative server and the PowerDNS recursor; we don't have this problem. What version of the auth. and recursive server are you running? --Augie On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:22 PM, David Sparks wrote: > David Sparks wrote: >> Why does PowerDNS aut

Re: [Pdns-users] Why prefer recursor answers over auth Authoritative answers?

2009-02-05 Thread Leen Besselink
Hi David, >> Why does PowerDNS auth server not answer queries that it is both authoritative >> for, and has an answer for in its auth server when recursion is available and >> requested? I did see you e-mail yesterday and I waited for someone knowledgable to try and answer this, because I just kn

[Pdns-users] Adding a caching nameserver to an existing secondary DNS server

2009-02-05 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Hello, We have a machine that runs PowerDNS as a slave for a couple of supermasters. The same machine also functions as a backup MX. I'd like to add a caching nameserver to this machine to decrease the time needed for DNS lookups, just for use by localhost. How would I set this up? Do I i

Re: [Pdns-users] Why prefer recursor answers over auth Authoritative answers?

2009-02-05 Thread David Sparks
David Sparks wrote: > Why does PowerDNS auth server not answer queries that it is both authoritative > for, and has an answer for in its auth server when recursion is available and > requested? I've found a Debian bug report that suggests this is a long standing problem with Powerdns: http://bugs