PowerDNS operation

bert hubert

bert@powerdns.com

How to install, launch and operate the PowerDNS nameserver

Table of Contents

1. The PowerDNS dynamic nameserver

1.1. Function & design of PDNS

1.2. Release notes

1.2.1. 1.99.5 Early Access Prerelease
1.2.2. 1.99.4 Early Access Prerelease
1.2.3. 1.99.3 Early Access Prerelease
1.2.4. 1.99.2 Early Access Prerelease
1.2.5. 1.99.1 Early Access Prerelease

1.3. Acknowledgements

2. Installing

2.1. Possible problems at this point

2.2. Testing your install

2.2.1. Typical errors

3. Running PDNS

4. Configure database connectivity

4.1. Configuring MySQL

4.1.1. Common problems

5. Dynamic resolution using the PipeBackend

5.1. Deploying the PipeBackend with the BindBackend

6. Monitoring PDNS performance

6.1. Webserver
6.2. Via init.d commands

7. Security settings & considerations

7.1. Settings

7.1.1. Running as a less privileged identity
7.1.2. Jailing the process in a chroot

7.2. Considerations

8. Virtual hosting

9. Performance related settings

9.1. PacketCache

10. Index of all settings

11. Index of all internal metrics

11.1. Counters & variables

11.1.1. Ring buffers

A. Backends in detail

A.1. PipeBackend protocol

A.1.1. Handshake
A.1.2. Questions
A.1.3. Answers

A.2. MySQL backend

A.2.1. Configuration settings

A.3. Generic MySQL backend

A.4. Generic PgSQL backend

A.4.1. Settings

A.5. Generic Oracle backend

A.6. Bind zonefile backend

A.6.1. Operation
A.6.2. Performance
A.6.3. Master/slave configuration

B. PDNS internals

B.1. Controlsocket
B.2. Guardian
B.3. Modules & Backends
B.4. How PDNS translates DNS queries into backend queries

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