Instructions on setting up SQLite3 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-sqlite3/schema Just create a database, for example in /var/lib/powerdns/pdns.sqlite3 and feed these SQL commands to get the default schema: sqlite3 /var/lib/powerdns/pdns.sqlite3 < \ /usr/share/pdns-backend-sqlite3/schema/schema.sqlite3.sql Then add your data to the database. An example configuration for PowerDNS is provided in /usr/share/doc/pdns-backend-sqlite3/examples/. 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.