[CentOS] Re: DNS Server and SQL backend

Mon Jul 31 22:20:14 UTC 2006
Dan Trainor <dan.trainor at gmail.com>

Scott Silva wrote:
> Dan Trainor spake the following on 7/28/2006 3:30 PM:
>> 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.
>>> 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).
>>>
>>> []s
>> 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
> Have you ever thought of open-sourcing yours?
> 
> 

Hi -

I think that would be great, but unfortunately this is not an option.

The reason for this is that it is highly catered to a specific 
industry... it wouldn't work for just any old hosting.  It's 
complicated, sorry heh.

Thanks
-dant