Hello
Just wanted to give everyone a quick status report on the state of Solaris
PowerDNS integration.
We broke through to daylight with the PowerDNS recursor server up and running
(names redacted to protect the guilty):
> pkginfo -l ACMEpowerdns-recursor
PKGINST: ACMEpowerdns-recursor
NAME: PowerDNS recursor
CATEGORY: application
ARCH: i386
VERSION: 3.3,REV=2012.04.09.14
BASEDIR: /opt/acme
VENDOR: ACME Co.
DESC: PowerDNS recursor (pdns_recursor(1M)) is a resolving DNS server
which runs as a separate process. The authoritative pdns_server(1M) can be
configured to proxy recursive queries to the recursor, and optionally overlay
authoritative zone data.
PSTAMP: host.inter.net20120409164425
INSTDATE: Apr 09 2012 16:45
EMAIL: please contact your service provider.
STATUS: completely installed
FILES: 28 installed pathnames
16 shared pathnames
2 linked files
16 directories
4 executables
18662 blocks used (approx)
As you can see, this is on SunOS 5.10 (Solaris 10) i86pc platform.
The recursor is now fully integrated into the Solaris Service Management
Facility (SMF), and is under SMF control:
> svcs -xv powerdns:recursor
svc:/site/powerdns:recursor (PowerDNS recursive name server)
State: online since Tue Apr 10 08:23:13 2012
See: man -M /opt/acme/share/man -s 1M pdns_recursor
See: /var/svc/log/site-powerdns:recursor.log
Impact: None.
Manual pages have been modified by hand to refer to section 1M instead of 8, to
comply with System V Release 4.0 convention. Would it be possible to refactor
the Makefile to do this automatically in a future release?
We have reached full compliance with the System V Release 4 filesystem(5)
specification: all application files are in /opt/acme, configuration is in
/etc/opt/acme/powerdns. Unfortunately, this required patching "config.h" with
gpatch(1), as it is not configurable in the current state (Makefile does not
currently modify "config.h" based on the value of SYSCONFDIR). rec_control(1M)
has been moved to /opt/acme/sbin, since we felt this command will not be run by
regular users, and in our view, is a command which would normally be used by
the system administrator, rather than a regular user.
The package above seamlessly provides both i386 and amd64 versions in
/opt/acme/sbin/i386 and /opt/acme/sbin/amd64; the operating system
automatically selects the appropriate binary based on the endianess of the
kernel (32- or 64-bit) because we hardlink
/opt/acme/sbin/(pdns_recursor|rec_control) to ../lib/isaexec.
The effort was seriously jeopardized with the immediate crash of pdns_recursor
thread #2 at start, and we only managed to break through to daylight thanks to
Google and an e-mail from Bert Hubert to the mailing list, detailing the very
special way that the pdns_recursor(1M) has to be built on Solaris.
Without the Google search and that e-mail, this project would have gotten
nowhere really fast. Based on our experience so far with building PowerDNS on
Solaris, we would like to ask that the special steps to build the pdns_recursor
on Solaris be included in the official documentation.
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