[Unbound-users] Unbound as secondary DNS?
Michael Tokarev
mjt at tls.msk.ru
Fri Jul 17 11:46:12 UTC 2009
Diederik de Vries wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I am afraid that I have a stupid question. I have a VPS-Server in the
> States, which I would like to use as fallback DNS and mail-server. I've
> succesfully setup Unbound as a recursor at that machine (works like a
> charm!) 'cause I had the idea that it would be able to function as a
> secondary DNS-Server (my primary is PowerDNS).
>
> I get the idea that Unbound is not able to function as a secondary DNS
> Server? Can someone confirm this, or point me to the right place in the
> manual?
Your thoughts are correct -- unbound is recursive-ONLY nameserver. But
there's also NSD, a cousine for unbound, which perform auth-only functions.
The two matches each other perfectly.
/mjt
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