[CentOS] DNS Server and SQL backend

Fri Jul 28 18:23:55 UTC 2006
Dan Trainor <dan.trainor at gmail.com>

Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 06:36:05PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>> Rodrigo Barbosa schrieb:
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>>> I think most people here use BIND as their DNS server of choise.
>>>
>>> I just happen to have updated DLZ patch for the current bind version.
>>>
>>> DLZ patch allows you to use mysql (pgsql, ldap etc) as a backend for
>>> zone storage. I make no garantees, of course, but if anyone is interested
>>> on the patch (with or without the specfile for rpm building), please
>>> let me know.
>>>
>>> To read more about DLZ: http://bind-dlz.sourceforge.net/
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>> Hi Rodrigo,
>>
>> mind you asking whether one should use your bind-dlz patch and not bind 
>> sdb? PNAELV includes SDB within the bind package on current Fedora Core 
>> and newer. Maybe you can point me to a paper?
> 
> I actually never heard of sdb.
> I'm not even able to find an specific URL for the project, even tho
> I've found some pages for specific drivers:
> http://www.venaas.no/ldap/bind-sdb/
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-bind/
> 
> I'll go and take a look at it, so I can compare.
> 
> bind-dlz is far from complete. It only allow queries (no dynamic
> updating for you, unless you go directly to the database), the
> database is pretty confusing (but it can be easly improved),
> and you can't have bind configuration itself on the database.
> 
> Maybe sdb will be better. I'll have to check it out.
> 

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 .

Hope that helps
-dant