From a8b6e3faede0a6bf60302659b5b5e3c617de1b8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Fisher Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 13:07:42 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Docs: Add note about only needing ro db access --- docs/modes-of-operation.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/modes-of-operation.rst b/docs/modes-of-operation.rst index 5e24b13b9..71b2e29b6 100644 --- a/docs/modes-of-operation.rst +++ b/docs/modes-of-operation.rst @@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ PowerDNS users employ Oracle replication which also works very well. To use native replication, configure your backend storage to do the replication and do not configure PowerDNS to do so. +Typically, a database slave will be configured as read-only as +uni-directional database replication is usually sufficient. A PowerDNS +server only requires database write access if it is participating as a +master or slave in zone transfers, or has a frontend attached for +managing records etc. + .. _master-operation: Master operation -- 2.40.0