Advanced Configuration Using Lua

Since version 4.0.0, the PowerDNS Recursor supports additional configuration options that have to be loaded through lua-config-file.

• Managing DNSSEC Trust Anchors in the Lua Configuration
• Logging DNS messages with Protocol Buffers
  • Configuring Protocol Buffer logs
  • Logging outgoing queries and responses
  • Protocol Buffers Definition
  • Logging in dnstap format using framestreams
• Response Policy Zones (RPZ)
• Evaluation order
• Configuring RPZ
  • Extended Errors
• RPZ Configuration Functions
• RPZ settings
  • defcontent
  • defpol
  • defpolOverrideLocalData
  • defttl
  • extendedErrorCode
  • extendedErrorExtra
  • includeSOA
  • maxTTL
  • policyName
  • tags
  • overridesGettag
  • zoneSizeHint
• Extra settings for rpzPrimary
  • tsigname
  • tsigalgo
  • tsigsecret
  • refresh
  • maxReceivedMBytes
  • localAddress
  • axfrTimeout
  • dumpFile
  • seedFile
• Policy Actions
  • Policy.Custom
  • Policy.Drop
  • Policy.NoAction
  • Policy.NODATA
  • Policy.NXDOMAIN
  • Policy.Truncate
• Using Sortlist
  • addSortList
• Zone to Cache
  • Example
  • DNSSEC and ZONEMD validation
  • Configuration
  • Zone to Cache settings
    • timeout
    • tsigname
    • tsigalgo
    • tsigsecret
    • refreshPeriod
    • retryOnErrorPeriod
    • maxReceivedMBytes
    • localAddress
    • zonemd
    • dnssec
• Adding Additional Records to Results
  • Configuring additional record processing
• Table Based Proxy Mapping

In addition, pdnslog() together with pdns.loglevels is also supported in the Lua configuration file.