Configuration¶

Nova DNS uses the same configuration file nova.conf as nova daemons and utilities. This file is usually located at /etc/nova directory.

Options, introduced by Nova DNS¶

dns_manager DNS manager class (string, nova_dns.dnsmanager.powerdns.Manager by default)
dns_listener Class to process AMQP messages (string, nova_dns.listener.simple.Listener by default)
dns_api_paste_config, File name for the paste.deploy config for nova-dns api (string, /etc/nova-dns/dns-api-paste.ini by default)
dns_listen IP address for DNS API to listen (string, 0.0.0.0 by default)
dns_listen_port DNS API port (integer, 15353 by default)
dns_default_ttl Default record ttl (integer, 7200 by default)
dns_soa_primary Name server that will respond authoritatively for the domain by default) (string, ns1 by default)
dns_soa_email (string, hostmaster by default) Email address of the person responsible for this zone by default)
dns_soa_refresh The time when the slave will try to refresh the zone from the master by default) (integer, 10800 by default)
dns_soa_retry Time between retries if the slave fails to contact the master (integer, 3600 by default)
dns_soa_expire Indicates when the zone data is no longer authoritative (integer, 604800 by default)
dns_zone Nova DNS base zone (string, localzone by default)
dns_auth “Auth mode in REST API” (enum (“none”, “keystone”), keystone by default)
dns_nova_auth “Auth mode in Nova” (enum (“none”, “keystone”), keystone by defautl)
dns_auth_role “Role name in REST API” (string, DNS_Admin by default)

dns_sql_connection Connection string for powerdns sql database (string mysql://pdns:pdns@localhost/pdns, by default)

dns_ns Name servers, in format ns1:ip1, ns2:ip2 (list, ns1:127.0.0.1 by default)

The daemon saves logs to nova-dns.log file in nova logs directory (e.g., /var/log/nova).