[CentOS] DNS Server and SQL backend

Dan Trainor dan.trainor at gmail.com
Fri Jul 28 18:52:51 UTC 2006


Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:23:55AM -0700, Dan Trainor wrote:
>> Hi -
>>
>> I don't know if it's been mentioned, but I thought I'd throw it out there.
>>
>> I recently converted ~120k domains in DNS from BIND to MyDNS, and it's 
>> proving to work quite well.  I'm extremely happy with it.  Even moreso, 
>> implementing a secondary is as easy as MySQL replication.  It's fast, 
>> has proven to be stable, and since it's MySQL-based, we are easily able 
>> to integrate it with our other systems.
>>
>> More information can be found at http://mydns.bboy.net .
>>
> 
> Well, having no recursive services is a bitch, at least for me.
> MyDNS's IPv6 support is also, from what I've heard, between
> non-existant and iffy.
> 
> I have read about PowerDNS, but I really haven't tried it yet.
> It is hard to step away from Bind.
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Hi -

Yes, I cheat - I run BIND as a small caching nameserver accepting 
connections on 127.0.0.1, which MyDNS asks for.  I forgot to mention 
that MyDNS doesn't offer recursive services.  Oops.

Thanks
-dant



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