man pdns_recursor (Administration système) - The PowerDNS recursor

NAME

pdns_recursor - The PowerDNS recursor

pdns_recursor [options]

This manual page is describes how to use the pdns_recursor command.

pdns_recursor is a program that does name server queries on the net and retrieves info about other domains.

A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.

--help: Show summary of options.
--aaaa-additional-processing=[yes|no]: Turn on to do AAAA additional processing (slow)
--config-dir=...: Location of configuration directory (recursor.conf)
--daemon=[yes|no]: Operate as a daemon
--delegation-only=...: Which domains we only accept delegations from
--local-address=...: address to listen on
--local-port=...: port to listen on
--quiet=[yes|no]: Suppress logging of questions and answers
--soa-minimum-ttl=...: Minimum Time To Live for a sOARecord. It's not recommended and supported to change this setting.
--soa-serial-offset=...: The offset for the serial in a sOARecord. It's not recommended and supported to change this setting.
--socket-dir=...: Where the controlsocket will live
--trace=...: if we should output heaps of logging

This manual page was written by Matthijs Mohlmann <matthijs@cacholong.nl>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).