[ Thanks to Falko
Timme for this link. ]
“In this example I’m using an Ubuntu 8.10 host with the
hostname server1.example.com and the IP address 192.168.0.100, set
up according to the first 10 chapters of this tutorial: The Perfect
Server – Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu 8.10).“I will set up just one PowerDNS server in this example (a
master); adding PowerDNS slave(s) can easily be achieved by using
MySQL database replication from the master to the slave(s),
therefore no zone transfers are needed (this again is similar to
MyDNS). MySQL database replication can be set up according to this
tutorial: How To Set Up Database Replication In MySQL (PowerDNS
also supports native zone transfers (for scenarios where you cannot
use MySQL replication) – see
http://downloads.powerdns.com/documentation/html/replication.html).“Because we must run all the steps from this tutorial with root
privileges, we can either prepend all commands in this tutorial
with the string sudo, or we become root right now by typing”