<![CDATA[Using DNS Resolver as authoritative]]>Hi,
is it possible to use DNS Resolver to host an Authoritative DNS server for a domain?
If so: how?
I see no option to handle MX recods and the like.

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But your not going to be able to create those records in the gui.

Why do you think you need a full blown authoritative NS? What exactly are you trying to do - if all you want is to respond for some MX records... Just do that in the custom option box

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/935815https://forum.netgate.com/post/935815Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:26:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Using DNS Resolver as authoritative on Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:06:08 GMT]]>@gianluca-macri said in Using DNS Resolver as authoritative:

Authoritative DNS

Ask them - the creators : https://nlnetlabs.nl/documentation/unbound/unbound/
So : no, it's a "resolver".

"pfSense" isn't a host for a NAS, web server, mail server - any server - so not an "Authoritative DNS" neither.
True, you can install the bind pfSense package. You'll discover that it is close to impossible to really admin such a setup : a "DNS server" (and a web servers, or mail servers, or any server demon) : adding a GUI layers just won't work very well.
This is "IMHO" of course. As I'm using bind for my domain names for years (decades ?) now.

A Authoritative DNS name server, one that "hosts" domain names, belongs typically on a VPS or dedicated server - lately also knows as 'a cloud thing'.
A router and/or firewall is something that can be placed in front of a server.

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