On 1/5/2011 12:58 πμ, Alejandro wrote:
HI Nick, The powerdns plugin for GOsa is finished, but the lack of
DNSSEC and the chance of drop this feature in future versions of
powerdns force the debian-edu project to choose bind in place of
powerdns for the next version of debian-edu.
...
I really like to see a update of the powerdns-ldap plugin because also
I think that ldap is a really good backend to manage DNS.
Hi Alejandro,
I do hope and *I believe* that the PowerDNS development team will change
their mind and decide to - at least minimally for the time being -
support the LDAP backend. IMHO it's one of the hidden powers of
PowerDNS, and I have striven to demonstrate my case for the benefit of
the PowerDNS project. If the LDAP backend is moved to unmaintained
status, I believe that the whole PowerDNS project may be harmed in terms
of propagation, fame and reliability.
One dimension of the problem, perhaps not always considered, might be
that to include a new backend would perhaps be far easier than keeping
up with the currently existing ones: dropping or reducing support for
one of them will tend to reduce the "reliability index" (as perceived by
the "world") for the whole project, because, once a backend is released
and officially included in a release, there will be a community (known
or unknown) of users for that backend, even if that community is not in
a position to directly provide some kind of compensation (funds or
development resources) to the project. One could assert that even the
adoption of the PowerDNS software IS a kind of compensation, which will
provide mid-term/long-term benefit(s) of all types (e.g. publicity,
propagation, etc.).
Note that while the PowerDNS LDAP backend in Authoritative Server v3.0
will surely not support DNSSEC, one could very well use Phreebird for an
easy and efficient DNSSEC deployment, until DNSSEC is included in the
backend itself (which I believe it will).
I find the lack of "Notify" ("Master") ability in the LDAP backend even
more important at this stage (although one can use workarounds, as I
have mentioned in this mailing list).
All the best,
Nick
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