Managing Mission - Critical Domains and DNS

Configuring powerdns

The main configuration file is pdns.conf, most often found in /etc/powerdns.

Convention has an include directive in the config, which specifies a subdirectory where you can put configurations for each powerdns backend:

include-dir=/etc/powerdns/pdns.d

If we look in that directory, we'll see it would include the following:

$ ls pdns.dpdns.local pdns.local.gmysql.conf pdns.simplebind.conf

Most of the main configuration is well documented within the comments and straightforward.

Of importance are your launch directives, which specify which backends to launch on startup, and in what order a query will traverse these backends:

################################# # launch Which backends to launch and order to query them in # ...