Comments on: Installing PowerDNS

By: James Reuben Knowles

James Reuben Knowles — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:46:29 +0000

I'm not an expert on either DNS or PowerDNS unfortunately. It's usually a small thing, like when I set up another server recently I forgot to open port 53 for UDP. I would highly recommend you subscribe to the mailing list and look on the PowerDNS wiki.

By: mars

mars — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 05:45:57 +0000

The test databse works great SOA comes right up. But when i try my real website SOA is missing. A and MX are all there. I Don’t get it and I want to. Any Ideas. Thanks!

By: James Reuben Knowles

James Reuben Knowles — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:47:58 +0000

That’s a great comment, Gareth. I’ve never had the need to migrate, but I’m sure it’s a common thing to do. Thanks!

By: Gareth

Gareth — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:40:49 +0000

Excellent starters guide, got it up and running in no time.

Just a note if migrating from BIND 9, PowerDNS comes with a tool called ‘zone2sql’ which allows you to convert your BIND zones to gMYSQL format.
Do something like…
/usr/bin/zone2sql -gmysql –named-conf=

You can also process individual zone files, as opposed to your entire conf file.

By: James Reuben Knowles

James Reuben Knowles — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:04:03 +0000

I would highly recommend you subscribe to the mailing. You can find more information on the PowerDNS wiki.

By: bayu

bayu — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:41:08 +0000

why i can’n nslookup google.com when i install powerdns ?

** server can’t find google.com: SERVFAIL

any suggestion ?

thanks

By: James Reuben Knowles

James Reuben Knowles — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:03:23 +0000

Matt,

Thank you very much for catching that error! I’ve used these notes a couple of times and blew right past it.

Glad you found it useful, and thanks again for the bug catch.
James

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:36:01 +0000

Nice article, very useful for a PowerDNS first timer! Worked right away on CentOS 5… Thanks!

BTW, small error on the line : sudo yum /sbin/service mysqld start (yum?)

Thanks!
Matt.

By: James Reuben Knowles

James Reuben Knowles — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:37:59 +0000

Hey Mike,

I’ve not tried to set up a TLD. I think this would be a perfect question for the PowerDNS mailing list. Have you tried the elist yet?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:09:35 +0000

anyluck setting up toplevel domains? I recently joined a vpn network, and i have tried to add a domain like .brd and well it doesn’t see it as a top level domain and refuses to add it.

any ideas?