Instructions on setting up MySQL as a backend for PowerDNS ---------------------------------------------------------- PowerDNS uses dbconfig-common. The database backends offer you to automatically create and maintain the databases for you. If you choose yes, you're fine, no more action needed. Should you decide to create your databases yourself, for example, if you decide to use a non-standard schema, please find the database schema recommended by Upstream for MySQL in /usr/share/dbconfig-common/data/pdns-backend-mysql/install/mysql Just create a database (for example, named pdns) and then feed these SQL commands to MySQL to get some defaults to start with: mysql -u root -p < /usr/share/dbconfig-common/data/pdns-backend-mysql/install/mysql Then add your data to the database.