On Tue, Nov 29, 2022, at 08:45, Victor Hugo dos Santos via Pdns-users wrote: > hello there, > > today we have to migrate an old configuration (what was using the > forward-zones-file) to a new server using the ansible recursor > playbook (https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns_recursor-ansible), but some > internal domains didn't worked well and after some debug we got that > there is a difference using the "+" on the forward-zones and > forward-zones-file. > > https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/settings.html#forward-zones > https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/settings.html#forward-zones-file > > ```Zones prefixed with a ‘+’ are treated as with > forward-zones-recurse. Default behaviour without ‘+’ is as with > forward-zones.``` > > So, why this two parameters need to have different syntax (not only > the +, but the use of ; and , as separator:
The "+" (and other markers) are necessary in order to avoid requiring a configuration for every combination of forward-zones optional behaviors; it would be much more difficult to manage a configuration which had forward-zones-file, forward-zones-recurse-file, forward-zones-notify-file, forward-zones-recurse-notify-file, etc. If you'd like forward-zones to accept the same "+" and "^" markers as forward-zones-file does, and then there would be no need for forward-zones-recurse/etc., that would be a reasonable feature request. _______________________________________________ Pdns-users mailing list Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com https://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users
