[CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server
Tomasz Napierała
zen at allegro.pl
Fri Aug 3 14:24:21 UTC 2007
On Friday 03 August 2007 15:46:49 Ken Price wrote:
> I've personally used PowerDNS, TinyDNS, MyDNS, nsd, Bind 8/9, and MS
> DNS. PowerDNS is phenomenal. Look into the proprietary
> "supermaster/superslave" functionality. To manage the 1600+ domains,
> we have our primary server setup using a MySQL backend. This allows
> simple integration of our accounting and support systems. The slaves
> are using sqlite3 backends. One word of caution, while a "superslave"
> may automatically add a new domain, it will not remove domains deleted
> at the master. I've solved this by removing all non NS/SOA records
> from that domain and updating the serial on the master - so changes
> propagate to slaves. Then have a cronjob running that purges empty
> domains from the databases on the master and slaves.
>
Just to add one comment, PowerDNS is also easy migration path from BIND as it
can use existing BIND configuration files as a backend in addition to MySQL
(or other dbms)
Regards,
--
Tomasz Napierala
System Administrator
Allegro Team
http://www.allegro.pl/
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