LUA records are synthesized on query. They can also be transferred via AXFR
to other PowerDNS servers.
-LUA records themselves can not be queried
-however, as this would allow third parties to see load balancing internals
+LUA records themselves can not be queried however, as this would allow third parties to see load balancing internals
they do not need to see.
A non-supporting DNS server will also serve a zone with LUA records, but
-they will not function.
+they will not function, and will in fact leak the contents of the LUA record.
.. note::
- Under NO circumstances serve LUA records from zones from untrusted sources!
+ Under NO circumstances serve LUA records from zones from untrusted sources!
LUA records will be able to bring down your system and possible take over
- control of it.
+ control of it. Use TSIG on AXFR even from trusted sources!
LUA records can be DNSSEC signed, but because they are dynamic, it is not
possible to combine pre-signed DNSSEC zone and LUA records. In other words,
LUA records.
Note that to protect operators, support for the LUA record must be enabled
-explicitly, either globally (``global-lua-record``) or per zone
+explicitly, either globally (``enable-lua-record``) or per zone
(``ENABLE-LUA-RECORD`` = 1).