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</p><div class="table"><a id="idp9189600"></a><p class="title"><b>Table A.2. Random Backend capabilities</b></p><div class="table-contents"><table summary="Random Backend capabilities" border="1"><colgroup><col /><col /></colgroup><tbody><tr><td>Native</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td>Master</td><td>No</td></tr><tr><td>Slave</td><td>No</td></tr><tr><td>Superslave</td><td>No</td></tr><tr><td>Autoserial</td><td>No</td></tr><tr><td>Case</td><td>Depends</td></tr><tr><td>DNSSEC</td><td>Yes, no key storage</td></tr><tr><td>Module name</td><td>built in</td></tr><tr><td>Launch name</td><td>random</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><p><br class="table-break" />
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This is a very silly backend which is discussed in <a class="xref" href="backend-writers-guide.html#simple-backends" title="1. Simple read-only native backends">Section 1, “Simple read-only native backends”</a> as a demonstration on
how to write a PowerDNS backend.
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This backend knows about only one hostname, and only about its IP address at that. With every query,
a new random IP address is generated.
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It only makes sense to load the random backend in combination with a regular backend. This can be done by prepending
it to the <span class="command"><strong>launch=</strong></span> instruction, such as <span class="command"><strong>launch=random,gmysql</strong></span>.
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Variables:
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</p><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">random-hostname</span></dt><dd><p>
Hostname for which to supply a random IP address.
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