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Slave Dns / DNS forwarder / Proxy?
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Slave Dns / DNS forwarder / Proxy?

DXDDXD Member

is there any plug and play like dns forwarder. Like i have a master dns server which contains all the master records. Is it possible for a slave dns to just forward request to the master for it to actually resolve.?

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  • Yes.
    But why?
    An active-active situation would make more sense imho.

  • There are a handful of legitimate use cases.
    BTW, even Nginx may be used as DNS forwarder, doing TCP and UDP proxying/balancing...

    Thanked by 2DXD that_guy
  • nielsniels Member
    edited November 2018

    I wouldn't call it a slave. If you want to have a proper secondary server, you will need to set up a proper DNS server as slave.

    If you actually want to proxy/forward requests, I would suggest dnsdist (made by the people behind PowerDNS).

    Thanked by 2DXD that_guy
  • @niels said:
    I wouldn't call it a slave. If you want to have a proper secondary server, you will need to set up a proper DNS server as slave.

    If you actually want to proxy/forward requests, I would suggest dnsdist (made by the people behind PowerDNS).

    Thanks for this but i am unable to dig the public ip. I set 0.0.0.0 as the local ip. But the public ip doesn't respond to queries at all. any heads up ?

  • gbshousegbshouse Member, Host Rep

    @DXD just don't. There is nothing worst than misconfigured DNS server

  • @gbshouse said:
    @DXD just don't. There is nothing worst than misconfigured DNS server

    Just testing for a project . Don't know whats wrong with trying these days ? ?_?

  • dnsmasq does a dandy job, but unbound work work as well.

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