RE: [registrars] powerdns

["Donny Simonton" <donny@intercosmos.com>]

That's funny, one of our programmers wrote mydns in his spare time.  :))
And mydns has been tested with about 1 million domains and it worked
like a charm.

If you want mydns to support DNSEC or SIP/ENUM, just complain to the
programmer on his list, he will add it.

Donny

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars@dnso.org [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org] On
> Behalf Of Rick Wesson
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 11:32 PM
> To: Bhavin Turakhia
> Cc: 'Nikolaj Nyholm'; registrars@dnso.org
> Subject: RE: [registrars] powerdns
> 
> 
> 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/
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>