Tag: pdns

Upgrading PowerDNS from Debian Squeeze to Wheezy

As I mentioned here, I had to manually create a database schema when I installed PowerDNS on Debian Squeeze. Later versions apparently create one themselve. Read More »
By halfgaar, 6 years ago, on September 24, 2013, at 12:09 | Comments closed

Adding foreign key constraints to PowerDNS default schema

In an earlier post I made, I described how to manually create the SQL schema, because it didn't itself. When I installed Power DNS 3.1-4 on a Raspberry Pi, I noticed it had created the scheme itself this time. However, it did not make the foreign key constraints. This is dumb. I regularly need to remove domains from the DB and I don't want stale or incorrect references as a result. Read More »
By halfgaar, 6 years ago, on June 12, 2013, at 23:06 | 1 comment

Configuring a Power DNS superslave server

Power DNS, as opposed to Bind, has the option to be a superslave. This means that it will initiate any zone transfer from trusted hosts, avoiding the need to configure each zone on both master and slave. Read More »
By halfgaar, 8 years ago, on January 30, 2011, at 23:01 | 3 comments