PowerDNS is an advanced, high performance authoritative nameserver compatible with a number of backends. In this case we will use MariaDB to store our zone file records. At the end of this tutorial, you will have a working PowerDNS nameserver that you can use to host DNS for any number of domains.

In this tutorial we will learn how to set up PowerDNS in a master/slave configuration with automatic replication from the master DNS server to the slave. This tutorial is the second tutorial in our PowerDNS series for Ubuntu.