RE: [registrars] powerdns

[Rick Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

Bhavin,

your milage may varry. I've never used bind9+dlz. for those that don't
know DLZ adds a capability so bind9 can (un)load zones without having to
update the named.conf file and HUP the bind9 daemon. DLZ virtual;izes the
zone configuration in the named.conf file.

I like bind9 because it has the ONLY DNSSEC implementation on the planet,
and using bind9 gets one all the stuff to use DNSSEC which is comming.

I put powerDNS in with mydns (a mysql backened DNS server) they are great
but if you ever want to support DNSEC or SIP/ENUM you'll have to use
bind.

If you just want to provide simple manipulation of A, MX, and NS
records dynamicly for DNS hosting either powerDNS or MyDNS will stand up
in a production environment for small/medium sized registrars.

DISCLAMER: I've worked for ISC, the folks that support bind and I have a
           great deal of respect for their programmers.


MyDNS http://mydns.bboy.net/
BIND  http://www.isc.org/
DLZ   http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=214617


-rick

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Bhavin Turakhia wrote:

>
> Rick: how would u compare it to BIND + DLZ ?? Any experience (especially
> on counts of stability and performance)
>
> Also any idea on how many mission-critical installations does powerdns
> have?
>
> Plus: wats their progress/support towards IDN capabilities in the future
>
> bhavin
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rick Wesson [mailto:wessorh@ar.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 10:24 AM
> > To: Bhavin Turakhia
> > Cc: 'Nikolaj Nyholm'; registrars@dnso.org
> > Subject: RE: [registrars] powerdns
> >
> >
> >
> > its open source and is real cool. the only RR type powerdns
> > lacks is a SRV record type.
> >
> > -rick
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Bhavin Turakhia wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Sounds very interesting - do you know by chance what license it has
> > > been released under. On their website there is stil a link
> > that says -
> > >
> > > "Contact us for pricing or technical details! *"
> > >
> > > Does it mean that it is released as opensource but not licensed for
> > > commercial usage?? Yet in their documentation they state GNU ver2
> > >
> > > bhavin
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: owner-registrars@dnso.org
> > [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org]
> > > > On Behalf Of Nikolaj
> > Nyholm
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 3:10 AM
> > > > To: registrars@dnso.org
> > > > Subject: [registrars] powerdns
> > > > Importance: Low
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > the currently best kept secret within our industry, would be that
> > > > powerdns[1] has gone open source[2].
> > > >
> > > > for those registrars who participated in the registrars
> > meeting in
> > > > amsterdam in october, you will remember the hospitality of the
> > > > powerdns team. if any of you are at RIPE-44 in amsterdam end
> > > > january, bert hubert will be giving an introduction to powerdns.
> > > >
> > > > /n
> > > >
> > > > [1] http://www.powerdns.com/products/powerdns/
> > > > [2] http://www.powerdns.org/
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>