Re: FreeBSD Recursor 5.0.7 -> 5.1.1 upgrade warning (ships new empty yml config)

fair warning if you are upgrading Recursor on FreeBSD via pkg upgrade: 
5.0.7 -> 5.1.1

The FreeBSD powerdns-recursor package ships a default recursor.yml 
config file but does not convert the recursor.conf to recursor.yml

In our case this resulted in a broken recursor service because it tried 
to bind to a port that was not available.

The solution was to generate the yml file by converting the old config:

rec_control show-yaml path/to/recursor.conf > path/to/recursor.yml
mv recursor.conf recursor.conf.obsolete

https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/appendices/yamlconversion.html

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best regards,
Christoph