[114956] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: In a bit of bind...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daryl G. Jurbala)
Mon Jun 1 17:43:47 2009
From: "Daryl G. Jurbala" <daryl@introspect.net>
To: Curtis Maurand <cmaurand@xyonet.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A242005.4050608@xyonet.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 17:43:22 -0400
Cc: Ben Matthew <Ben.Matthew@timlradio.co.uk>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 1, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Curtis Maurand wrote:
>
> I've been using powerdns for quite a while and I've found it to be
> solid and stable. It'll use quite a few different backends
> includeing BIND zone files, but its claim to fame is that it uses
> mysql.
>
> a list of different backends can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerDNS#Backends
>
> I saw bind and bind2, db2, geo, gmysql, gpgsql, goracle, gsqlite,
> ldap, odbc, opendbx, pipe and xdb. Pipe is interesting because you
> can write a backend in anything that talks to anything. There is
> documentation and examples on the website. The "g" stands for
> generic.
>
> I've been using poweradmin for management.
>
We've been using it as well in what I would consider a very small
setup: 150 domains, most with almost no traffic to speak of, but 3 or
4 with decent traffic (the high traffic ones serving over 50k end-user
CPE for VoIP traffic with very short TTLs ). The MySQL back-end
really is a claim to fame - it makes administration really easy to
integrate into whatever you want.
We have also been using poweradmin for basic management for things not
under programmatic MySQL management. It's basic and a bit kludgy, but
definitely adequate, and easy enough to hack into your own idea of
what it should be.
Daryl
