pdns_recursor8
The powerdns recursor
Usage
pdns_recursor [options]
Overview
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.
Options
A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.
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--help -
Show summary of options.
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--aaaa-additional-processing=[yes|no] -
Turn on to do AAAA additional processing (slow)
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--config-dir=... -
Location of configuration directory (recursor.conf)
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--daemon=[yes|no] -
Operate as a daemon
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--delegation-only=... -
Which domains we only accept delegations from
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--local-address=... -
address to listen on
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--local-port=... -
port to listen on
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--quiet=[yes|no] -
Suppress logging of questions and answers
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--soa-minimum-ttl=... -
Minimum Time To Live for a sOARecord. It's not recommended and supported to change this setting.
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--soa-serial-offset=... -
The offset for the serial in a sOARecord. It's not recommended and supported to change this setting.
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--socket-dir=... -
Where the controlsocket will live
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--trace=... -
if we should output heaps of logging