Instructions on setting up MySQL as a backend for PowerDNS ---------------------------------------------------------- You should create a database yourself and install the schema into it. On upgrades you should also upgrade the schema. You can find the upstream recommended schema here: /usr/share/pdns-backend-mysql/schema Just create a database (for example, named pdns) and then feed these SQL commands to MySQL to get the default schema: mysql -u root -p < \ /usr/share/pdns-backend-mysql/schema/schema.mysql.sql Then add your data to the database. An example configuration for PowerDNS is provided in /usr/share/doc/pdns-backend-mysql/examples/. It is probably a good idea to protect your configuration file, as it will contain your database password: chmod 0640 /etc/powerdns/pdns.d/gmysql.conf chgrp pdns /etc/powerdns/pdns.d/gmysql.conf Note: in previous versions, the Debian packages used dbconfig-common, and you can continue to use dbconfig created databases, but you will have to upgrade the schema manually.