auth: change the consistent-backends default to 'yes'

diff --git a/docs/settings.rst b/docs/settings.rst
index 07fb6c2b3ae786f27152ba47e2e6670eed88d969..6a3e0a2e36ff170123ce07f67788f3a52aac1482 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/settings.rst
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ Name of this virtual configuration - will rename the binary image. See
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 -  Boolean
--  Default: no
+-  Default: yes
 
 .. versionadded:: 4.4.0
 
@@ -299,7 +299,9 @@ When this is set, PowerDNS assumes that any single domain lives in only one back
 This allows PowerDNS to send ANY lookups to its backends, instead of sometimes requesting the exact needed type.
 This reduces the load on backends by retrieving all the types for a given name at once, adding all of them to the cache.
 It improves performance significantly for latency-sensitive backends, like SQL ones, where a round-trip takes serious time.
-This behaviour will be enabled by default in a future release.
+
+.. note::
+  Pre 4.5.0 the default was no.
 
 .. _setting-control-console:
 

diff --git a/docs/upgrading.rst b/docs/upgrading.rst
index 9671625b5d29df65de750be29aa6b025740aaf9c..6db6861a3b50ce3624e51ff4904f367dee11bfc5 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/upgrading.rst
+++ b/docs/upgrading.rst
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Their old names still work in 4.5.x, but will be removed in the release after it
 Changed defaults
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
+- The default value of the ``consistent-backends`` option has been changed from ``no`` to ``yes``.
 - The default value of the ``timeout`` option for :ref:`ifportup` and :ref:`ifurlup` functions has been changed from ``1`` to ``2`` seconds.
 
 4.3.x to 4.4.0

diff --git a/pdns/common_startup.cc b/pdns/common_startup.cc
index 60c81cad963c7e684bfe3ba9b99622f15888b9bc..66191ee203231ae1ae92729730dc0274a2e132d0 100644 (file)
--- a/pdns/common_startup.cc
+++ b/pdns/common_startup.cc
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ void declareArguments()
   ::arg().setSwitch("upgrade-unknown-types","Transparently upgrade known TYPExxx records. Recommended to keep off, except for PowerDNS upgrades until data sources are cleaned up")="no";
   ::arg().setSwitch("svc-autohints", "Transparently fill ipv6hint=auto ipv4hint=auto SVC params with AAAA/A records for the target name of the record (if within the same zone)")="no";
 
-  ::arg().setSwitch("consistent-backends", "Assume individual domains are not divided over backends. Send only ANY lookup operations to the backend to reduce the number of lookups")="no";
+  ::arg().setSwitch("consistent-backends", "Assume individual domains are not divided over backends. Send only ANY lookup operations to the backend to reduce the number of lookups")="yes";
 
   ::arg().set("rng", "Specify the random number generator to use. Valid values are auto,sodium,openssl,getrandom,arc4random,urandom.")="auto";
   ::arg().setDefaults();