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) > > 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 > 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 > clients querying from AU,JP and HK. Everyone else should get the IP for > my server in US. Powerdns can do that using the geo backend. Wikipedia uses powerdns with geo backend. Koos -- Koos van den Hout, PGP keyid DSS/1024 0xF0D7C263 via keyservers [EMAIL PROTECTED] or RSA/1024 0xCA845CB5 -?) Fax +31-30-2817051 Visit the site about books with reviews /\\ http://idefix.net/~koos/ http://www.virtualbookcase.com/ _\_V
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