[CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

Fri Aug 3 14:24:21 UTC 2007
Tomasz Napierała <zen at allegro.pl>

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/