Hi Curtis,

On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 09:53:15AM -0400, Curtis Maurand wrote:
> I have successfully installed pdns-recursor on Deadalus. Powerdns dropped
> outright support for non-systemd systems. I wanted to get this out there so
> that it's on the record. I also posted the to the pdns-users list.  They
> don't require systemd to be installed. It defaults to running in the
> foreground and that might lend itself to Runit or S6. It does, however still
> run a s daamon in the background. I'm using Sysv.
>
> This all started because version 4.8.8 from the default repositories stopped
> working correctly and is no longer supported by powerdns. The new version
> (which has a different config syntax) will still run as a daemon in the
> background which is suitable for sysv. I like pdns_recursor because of it's
> high performance and robustness as compared to unbound. pdns recursor is
> fast and scalable enough for isp's. It can serve thousands of queries per
> second.
>
> The installation is fairly straight forward.
>
> If you need a copy of /etc/int.d/pdns-recorsor, contact me and I'll get a
> copy to you. The same goes for /etc/default/pdns.

Lorenzo contributed [1] support back into orphan-sysvinit-scripts so if you
have that package installed then pdns-recursor will work out of the box
on Excalibur! Seems to work.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/1065133