[111341] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Database backed DNS Management Solutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Wed Feb 4 17:50:49 2009
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:50:39 -0800
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <6fb190210902041336ma1909dbg2d42979bb9febae3@mail.gmail.com>
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Steven Crandell wrote:
> I'm a long time BIND user and recent convert to PowerDNS.
> I considered BIND-DLZ briefly but found that I wasn't excited about the DB
> retro-fit on a piece of software that was previously very much meant to live
> in the world of flat files.
> My initial intent was to try PowerDNS first and then give BIND-DLZ a test
> drive also, but I never got around to BIND-DLZ given how well PowerDNS
> performed.
>
> My only beef with PDNS is the inability to use master-slave replication to
> hosts that are not listed as type NS.
> This is by design but it nevertheless got in my way.
> I've since just set all domains to use native replication (e.g. db backend
> repliciation, Postgres/Slony in this instance) and absolutely could not be
> happier with the results.
>
> The amount of time I spend managing DNS has been reduced to almost nothing
> given how easily I can script my large operations.
> Still it pays to be wise: Use transactions!!
>
Always, always, *always* use a transaction-aware database with PowerDNS.
That said, I too am a happy user of PowerDNS using native database
replication. The recent January 27 release added a lot of good stuff.
~Seth
