[CentOS] DNS Server and SQL backend

Fri Jul 28 22:30:27 UTC 2006
Dan Trainor <dan.trainor at gmail.com>

Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 01:01:41PM -0700, Dan Trainor wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>> You forget to mention what problem you were having with BIND that
>>> this solves.  
>>>
>> For one, BIND was taking quite a while to reload.  Secondly, like I 
>> said, it allowed for easier integration with our Hosting system, which 
>> is almost completely automated - which is what I think the original 
>> poster was wanting to accomplish.
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> What hosting system are you using ?
> I've taken a look at several (cPanel, Plesk etc), and found them all
> to be way too intrusive (not to mention crappy).
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Hi -

We made our own.  I think we can both agree that none of them are really 
suited for small, specific types of hosting.

Thanks
-dant