https://cloudalbania.com/tags/dnsdist/Recent content in Dnsdist on Besmir ZanajHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usFri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://cloudalbania.com/2026-05-powerdns-in-a-box-a-podman-compose-stack-for-trying-authoritative-dns/Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://cloudalbania.com/2026-05-powerdns-in-a-box-a-podman-compose-stack-for-trying-authoritative-dns/The problem You’ve decided to run your own authoritative DNS. Maybe you want to delegate a subdomain to a VPS for some experiment, maybe you’ve outgrown what your registrar’s nameservers let you do, or maybe you just want to learn the internals. PowerDNS is the obvious pick. Then you start reading: gmysql backend, schema file, pdns.conf, dnsdist sitting in front for ACLs and load balancing, a web UI for sanity, an API key wired between PDA and pdns, firewall, port 53 conflicts with whatever else is on the host…