pdns_server - The PowerDNS Authoritative Nameserver
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Copyright
PowerDNS.COM BV
Feb 06, 2025 PDNS_SERVER(1)
Description
The PowerDNS Authoritative Server is a versatile nameserver which supports a large number of backends.
These backends can either be plain zone files or be more dynamic in nature. Please see the online
documentation for more information.
Name
pdns_server - The PowerDNS Authoritative Nameserver
Options
See the online documentation for all options
--daemon
Indicate if the server should run in the background as a real daemon, or in the foreground.
--guardian
Run pdns_server inside a guardian. This guardian monitors the performance of the inner pdns_server
instance. It is also this guardian that pdns_controltalks to.
--control-console
Run the server in a special monitor mode. This enables detailed logging and exposes the raw
control socket.
--loglevel=<LEVEL>
Set the logging level.
--config
Show the currently configuration. There are three optional values: --config=default show the
default configuration. --config=diff show modified options in the current configuration.
--config=check parse the current configuration, with error checking.
--help To view more options that are available use this program.
See Also
pdns_control(1), pdnsutil(1), https://doc.powerdns.com/
Synopsis
pdns_server [OPTION]
