Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:26:47 +0200 From: Koos van den Hout <koos@kzdoos.xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS service with a SQL backend Message-ID: <20050721142647.GA2488@kzdoos.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <42DF4CAB.4070306@meijome.net> <40356a66050720120219f6dd92@mail.gmail.com> References: <40356a66050720120219f6dd92@mail.gmail.com> <42DF4CAB.4070306@meijome.net> <40356a66050720120219f6dd92@mail.gmail.com>
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Quoting Bruno Gallant who wrote on Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 03:02:55PM -0400:
> We are redesigning our DNS infrastructure, which has been running on
> BIND with the regular flat files for years, and there would be a need
> for the data to be in a database. (postgresql or mysql, of course)
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> I looked around the ports to find powerdns, but I don't know if it's
> good or not.
It's different from bind (this can be good or bad depending on your
perspective). It has a good track record in performance, especially for
large setups where database use would make for easier administration.
I know there are a lot of happy powerdns users and an active developer
community.
> On a similar thread, does anyone know of any dns server software that=20
> would serve different IPs depending on where the query/request comes from?
> i.e., - resolve www.mydomain.com to the IP of my server in AU for all=20
> clients querying from AU,JP and HK. Everyone else should get the IP for=
=20
> my server in US.
Powerdns can do that using the geo backend. Wikipedia uses powerdns with
geo backend.
Koos
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