From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 21 14:27:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FD8516A42B for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:27:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from koos@kzdoos.xs4all.nl) Received: from kzdoos.xs4all.nl (koos.idefix.net [82.92.222.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 688C043D86 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:26:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from koos@kzdoos.xs4all.nl) Received: from kzdoos.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kzdoos.xs4all.nl (8.12.3/8.12.3/KH20050218) with ESMTP id j6LEQmhR002818 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:26:48 +0200 Received: (from koos@localhost) by kzdoos.xs4all.nl (8.12.3/8.12.3/KH20041223-submit) id j6LEQmSF002817 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:26:48 +0200 Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:26:47 +0200 From: Koos van den Hout To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050721142647.GA2488@kzdoos.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <40356a66050720120219f6dd92@mail.gmail.com> <42DF4CAB.4070306@meijome.net> <40356a66050720120219f6dd92@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42DF4CAB.4070306@meijome.net> <40356a66050720120219f6dd92@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Zen: Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm X-Files: the truth is out there X-Food-Label: May contain traces of nuts Organization: Koos van den Hout private node X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . Subject: Re: DNS service with a SQL backend X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:27:33 -0000 --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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) >=20 > 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 --=20 Koos van den Hout, PGP keyid DSS/1024 0xF0D7C263 via keyservers koos@kzdoos.xs4all.nl or RSA/1024 0xCA845CB5 = -?) Fax +31-30-2817051 Visit the site about books with reviews = /\\ http://idefix.net/~koos/ http://www.virtualbookcase.com/ _= \_V --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC37CnLGY7XfDXwmMRAgRMAKC8U9IjQ0VLZV/lPDe2CUomz79fKQCg6j6D SoubwNDvnnG5pMlJD3/RNYM= =9y5v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s--