> The recursive resolver is what clients talk to "locally". AKA a
> caching resolver, it's not part of your authoritative infrastructure
Ah, I see. So there are really two separate parts to the system. Clients talk
to the resolvers and resolvers talk to the authoritative servers.
So all I ne
The recursive resolver is what clients talk to "locally". AKA a
caching resolver, it's not part of your authoritative infrastructure
at all. In fact, if you're using your authoritative nameservers as
caching resolvers, you should stop. For most people the recursive
resolver is provided by their
Here's your DNS noob question for the day. (I'm not a real sysadmin. I only
pretend to be when backed into a corner.)
I've been running PowerDNS (with a MySQL backend) successfully and happily for
a couple of years now. It's really basic stuff, one A record per host name.
Now I'm in a situati
