Compiling Power DNS on Snow Leopard
This is how to install PowerDNS on Mac OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.4.
1) Install 64-bit Mysql server from the MySQL dmg package available from the MySQL website
2) Install the boost c++ library by ports (at time of writing this is boost version 1.44)
sudo port install boost
3) Download the authoritative server tar.gz file from [powerdns.com][], and unpack.
4) Build and Install.
CXXFLAGS=-DDARWIN CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include ./configure \
--with-mysql-includes=/usr/local/mysql/include/
make
sudo make install
5) Install a default config file, examples within the package.
sudo cp /usr/local/etc/pdns.conf-dist /usr/local/etc/pdns.conf
6) Edit /usr/local/etc/pdns.conf to taste. To setup the MySQL backend, you will need to add the following to the file:
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launch=gmysql
gmysql-host=127.0.0.1
gmysql-user=root
gmysql-dbname=power_dns
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7) Create the database and database schema. You can find it here.
8) Start the server.
There is an init script file in "pdns/pdns" in the tar.gz package after compiling that you can use to stop/start the server, you must have root privileges (ie, use sudo) to start/stop the server because the daemon listens on ports < 1024.
You can find server log output in /var/log/system.log.
