Powerdns

Jul 20, 2023

Advanced DNS server with multiple backends including SQL

The PowerDNS Authoritative Server is a versatile nameserver which supports a large number of backends. These backends can either be plain zone files or be more dynamic in nature.

PowerDNS has the concepts of ‘backends’. A backend is a datastore that the server will consult that contains DNS records and some metadata. The backends range from database backends MySQL, PostgreSQL and BIND zone files to co-processes and JSON API’s.

Multiple backends can be enabled in the configuration by using the launch option. Each backend can be configured separately.



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