[nsd-users] tinydns to nsd

[Stuart Henderson]

On 2019/12/24 22:28, richard lucassen via nsd-users wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Dec 2019 14:59:53 +0100
> Anand Buddhdev <anandb at ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> I do not receive my own posts, I also get "needs moderator approval"
> although I received a welcome to this mailinglist. Must be something
> wrong somewhere...
> 
> > > only read these files when it receives a HUP or a restart and
> > > converts it to a db format. Now I need to add a domain in two
> > > places: 1) the
> > 
> > The DB format is optional, and in fact, not recommended these days.
> > Just set:
> > 
> > database: ""
> > 
> > in your nsd.conf, and NSD will not build a database file. It will just
> > read zones into memory and serve from there.
> 
> I use the default /var/lib/nsd/nsd.db, that's what I meant with db, just
> "database".

The file is not required at all. Not just "leave at default", but it is
usually recommended to actually disable it with

database: ""

Some OS builds do this by default, others don't.