PowerDNS operation

pdns@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. 1.99.8 Early Access Prerelease
1.2.2. 1.99.7 Early Access Prerelease
1.2.3. 1.99.6 Early Access Prerelease
1.2.4. 1.99.5 Early Access Prerelease
1.2.5. 1.99.4 Early Access Prerelease
1.2.6. 1.99.3 Early Access Prerelease
1.2.7. 1.99.2 Early Access Prerelease
1.2.8. 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. Migrating to PDNS

10.1. Zone2sql

11. Recursion

11.1. Details

12. Slave operation

12.1. Details

13. Index of all settings

14. Index of all internal metrics

14.1. Counters & variables

14.1.1. Ring buffers

15. Supported record types and their storage

A. Backends in detail

A.1. PipeBackend protocol

A.1.1. Handshake
A.1.2. Questions
A.1.3. Answers
A.1.4. Sample perl backend

A.2. MySQL backend

A.2.1. Configuration settings
A.2.2. Notes

A.3. Generic MySQL backend

A.4. Generic PgSQL backend

A.4.1. Settings

A.5. Generic Oracle backend

A.6. Bind zone file 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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