RE: [registrars] powerdns

["Bhavin Turakhia" <bhavin.t@directi.com>]

Hi nik,

As I see it the main advntg with PDNS is the fact that it is database
driven making it dynamic and live. Infact tht is the primary issue with
BIND.

However the DLZ project has been it seems sponsored by (I think) BIND in
order to address this very issue. All it simply does is create a driver
to allow bind to pick its data from any other data source (currently
drivers are available for mysql, pgsql and I think a filesystem driver)

In that sense I see the following as my pros and cons table

DLZ
===

Pros
----
* BIND is more stable and tried and tested than PowerDNS
* supports more features
* has greater development following

Cons
----
* DLZ itself is untested to a certain degree

However your statistics below help. Can you help me out by giving me
some more information such as -

* what kind of a server (and how many of them) are taking the load of
300k+ zones?
* how many queries per day do you recv??

I am in the process of running similar stats on DLZ soon ..... To try
and see which of them makes more sense for our products

Bhavin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars@dnso.org 
> [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org] On Behalf Of Nikolaj Nyholm
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 4:20 PM
> To: 'Bhavin Turakhia'; 'Rick Wesson'
> Cc: 'registrars@dnso.org'
> Subject: RE: [registrars] powerdns
> 
> 
> Bhavin,
> 
> We're running 300k+ zones on PowerDNS. Rick pointed out some 
> RR's missing, but that is the only drawback that I see. We 
> have been able to run more QPS (and with the fewest drops) on 
> PDNS than on any other nameserver daemon (djbdns, btw, rated 
> the lowest).
> 
> With regards to where the project is going, it is fully up to 
> those who participate.
> 
> Regards,
> Nikolaj
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bhavin Turakhia [mailto:bhavin.t@directi.com]
> > Sent: 14. januar 2003 06:09
> > To: 'Rick Wesson'
> > Cc: 'Nikolaj Nyholm'; registrars@dnso.org
> > Subject: RE: [registrars] powerdns
> > 
> > 
 > 
> > 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/
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 
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