Diederik de Vries wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I am afraid that I have a stupid question. I have a VPS-Server in the > States, which I would like to use as fallback DNS and mail-server. I've > succesfully setup Unbound as a recursor at that machine (works like a > charm!) 'cause I had the idea that it would be able to function as a > secondary DNS-Server (my primary is PowerDNS). > > I get the idea that Unbound is not able to function as a secondary DNS > Server? Can someone confirm this, or point me to the right place in the > manual? Your thoughts are correct -- unbound is recursive-ONLY nameserver. But there's also NSD, a cousine for unbound, which perform auth-only functions. The two matches each other perfectly. /mjt