Re: [Pdns-users] Configure PowerDNS recursor as NON RECURSIVE

2011-03-16 Thread davis_jira
Hi Adriel Torres, Thanks for the reply. I am aware that it has two packages but I am wondering if I could configure the pdns-recursor stand alone to work as non-recursive? I guess I can not. Also could you please tell in brief how does the pdns-server (PowerDNS Auth Server) works exactly? I am

Re: [Pdns-users] Configure PowerDNS recursor as NON RECURSIVE

2011-03-16 Thread Stefan Schmidt
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:19 PM, davis_jira davis.j...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Adriel Torres, Hey there, Thanks for the reply. I am aware that it has two packages but I am wondering if I could configure the pdns-recursor stand alone to work as non-recursive? I guess I can not. That is

Re: [Pdns-users] Configure PowerDNS recursor as NON RECURSIVE

2011-03-16 Thread davis_jira
Hi Stefan, Thanks for reply. It helped a lot to clear my confusion. I still have a question regarding pdns-server. How does it perform the query lookup? For eg: I query for host google.com 127.0.0.1 ... if this entry is in the database .. it returns the answer from database look up. But if

[Pdns-users] Configure PowerDNS recursor as NON RECURSIVE

2011-03-15 Thread davis_jira
Hi all, I am new to PowerDNS. I have downloaded the new PowerDNS recursor 3.3 tar file from their website. I am debugging the code to understand how it works. I can see that there are two config files being referred in the code. recursor.conf in pdns_recursor.cc and pdns.conf in rec_control.cc.

Re: [Pdns-users] Configure PowerDNS recursor as NON RECURSIVE

2011-03-15 Thread Adriel Torres
Hi there, I am just trying to understand what you are trying to do. Are you aware that PowerDNS has two packages? There is the powerdns-server and powerdns-recursor. The pdns-server doesn't do recursion, that's what the recursor package is for. I hope I am understanding your question. Kind