Does anyone have experience with PDNS?
The reason I ask is that I have never heard of it before today, but it looks like we might want to leverage its sql backend capabilites.
My (useless) searches lead me to: * http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-es/2009-February/004499.html * http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-July/078975.html (in spanish...) * http://www.tummy.com/journals/entries/kevin_20070326_163156 * http://mailman.powerdns.com/pipermail/pdns-users/2005-November/002829.html * http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/solaris-opensolaris-20/powerdns-vs-b... 636478/ (same dilemma as mine)
In particular do you have any complaints about doing complicated setups? Windows machines registering themselves? Upstream provider's continued support after 5.x? Any other jibes or cheers?
-Jason
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On 08/03/2009 12:51 AM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
Does anyone have experience with PDNS?
part of the centos infra runs off pdns... plus, I've used it in anger to frontend a 10k + record dns setup.
The reason I ask is that I have never heard of it before today, but it looks like we might want to leverage its sql backend capabilites.
Make sure you benchmark stuff, then do it again.
In particular do you have any complaints about doing complicated setups?
Its not that hard to get BIND doing sql as well, if thats what you really want. However, I've noticed that there must be some exceptional reasons to use sql in the first place - most people dont need it. I guess you have already worked through other possibilities ?
Upstream provider's continued support after 5.x?
pdns isnt in 'upstream'
Any other jibes or cheers?
it mostly works. might need a bit of unlearning Bind to get your head around.
Jason Pyeron wrote:
In particular do you have any complaints about doing complicated setups?
We are using a clustered mysql setup and the pdns servers all connect to the same database. This means no worrying about master-slave XFRs. When changes occur to database such as adding/removing zones, all changes are reflected immediately to all DNS servers without restarting or reloading the pdns daemon.
Windows machines registering themselves?
We haven't done this.
Upstream provider's continued support after 5.x?
It's in the CentOS Extras repo not in base. But the release in Extras is outdated and there are security fixes are in later releases.
EPEL has the latest release and its spec file appears to be written by the same person that did the centos-plus version.
Any other jibes or cheers?
http://doc.powerdns.com/ has lots of info to get it setup.
Also, PowerAdmin (https://www.poweradmin.org) is a decent web front-end to pdns.
Rick
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