Hi Jack,

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 14:06 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Matthijs - thanks for the fast response!
> 
> On Apr 7, 2005, at 11:15 AM, Matthijs Mohlmann wrote:
> 
> > Hi Jack,
> >
> > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 09:45 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> Package: pdns
> >> Version: 2.9.17-9
> >> Severity: wishlist
> >> Tags: patch
> >>
> >> It'd be wizard if, like bind, pdns updated resolvconf's list of
> >> available nameservers -
> >>
> > The patch you provided will add "nameserver 127.0.0.1" to the
> > resolv.conf configuration ? In the patch you provide you do a:
> > resolvconf -d lo (Why not -a ? that adds the interface to the existing
> > set of nameservers)
> 
> The patches are stolen from the bind init script - they should add 
> "nameserver 127.0.0.1" to /etc/resolv.conf - if managed by Thomas 
> Hood's resolvconf package - when pdns starts, & remove it when pdns 
> stops - hence "-a" in start & "-d" in stop.
> 
I need to read better the manpages

> The order of nameservers in /etc/reslov.conf is configurable in 
> resolvconf, but by default, local nameservers are queried before 
> nameservers on ethernet interfaces, then ppp interfaces etc. I'm no 
> resolvconf sage, but it's really handy - I use pdns when it's running, 
> but dns doesn't break when it's not & I'm not always viming 
> /etc/resolv.conf
> 
> > Probably better is to add the interface where pdns-server is listening
> > on but that's side note
> 
> Totally - I thought about this, specially since you probably run 
> pdns_recursor on another port - but getting 127.0.0.1 into resolvconf 
> is a useful start.
> 
> pdns_recursor prints the local port when it starts, so one could sed & 
> pass it to resolvconf - but not so for the local address or pdns_server 
> at all.
> 
> Alternatively, one could sed /etc/powerdns/{pdns.conf,recursor.conf}, 
> but this'd require more intelligence from the init script - & if you're 
> not using 127.0.0.1, you probably want to configure /etc/resolv.conf 
> manually anyway.
> 
> > What if someone doesn't want that?
> 
> Don't install resolvconf - or configure resolvconf appropriately.
> 
That sounds ok

> > (Probably i can add a configuration
> > parameter to /etc/default/pdns-server)
> >>
> >> Many thanks for maintaining this awesome alternative dns server!
> >>
> > It's a nice one eh :)
> 
> Totally : ) The geobackend has me pretty revved - too bad pdns doesn't 
> support dynamic dns updates yet : \
> 
Feature request on the pdns list ;)

About your mail to the pdns list, i've splitted the config of pdns and
have made a patch that adds a directive to the pdns config, to add a
directory with files which contains configuration items. So you could
split out the ldap config from the main pdns config.
Problem is that i made a little fault in doing the configuration
automatically and it seems there are people using unstable stuff on
production machines ;)

Regards,

Matthijs Mohlmann

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