Notes about Debian's PowerDNS package ------------------------------------- + Introduction PowerDNS is a powerful DNS server, it has the ability to serve data from different backends, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, LDAP etc. + Configure The configuration for PowerDNS is separated in different files. In /etc/powerdns/pdns.conf are the base server settings, the configuration for specific backends could go into any other file (ending in .conf) in /etc/powerdns/pdns.d/. launch= settings can be chained by using the launch+= syntax. + Chroot PowerDNS can run in a chrooted environment, but this has some disadvantages. It is not easy to connect via a socket to another service like MySQL or PostgreSQL. When using the sqlite backend, the database needs to live inside the chroot. With systemd, the service startup notification currently does not work for similar reasons. If you don't have these restrictions you can enable the chroot option.