Hi everybody, We're already getting decent amounts of feedback, please keep it up. We also got a question if we are looking for suggestions on dnsdist: yes, very much so!
http://blog.powerdns.com/2015/03/11/introducing-dnsdist-dns-abuse-and-dos-aware-query-distribution-for-optimal-performance/ and http://dnsdist.org/ A version of the email below with clickable links is on http://blog.powerdns.com/2015/05/26/powerdns-needs-your-help-what-are-we-missing/ Thanks! Bert On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 02:34:38PM +0200, bert hubert wrote: > Hi everybody, > > As we're working on PowerDNS 4.x, we are wondering: what are we missing? > > The somewhat longer story is that as a software developer, a sort of > feature-blindness appears. We try to make the software better, faster etc, > but by focusing so much on the technology, one can lose sight of the use > case. > > In this way it is possible that a software vendor neglects to implement > something, even though many users desperately want it. If so, please speak > up! The short version: please mail powerdns.id...@powerdns.com your ideas! > > As concrete examples, PowerDNS took its time to add an API, and once we had > it, people immediately started using it, even before we had documented the > API. Similarly, for many years, we did not deliver a proper graphing > solution, and now that it is there it is highly popular. > > But what more are we missing? Should we expand into IPAM and do DHCP and IP > address management? Should we make an out of the box NAT64/DNS64 solution? > Do we need to improve replication beyond "database native" and "AXFR-based" > (so 'super-duper-slave'?)? > > Should we start doing versioned databases so people can roll back changes? > IXFR? > > Should we add a built-in DNS based load balancer where we poll if your IP > addresses are up? > > Or would it be wise to move on beyond the geographical versatile backends, > and simply add 'US' and 'Europe', 'Oceania', 'Asia' IP address profiles? > > Should the recursor gain cache sharing abilities? Or pre-fetching? Or even > TTL-faking in case auths are down? > > The list above is just to prime your imagination: if you have any ideas on > what you are missing, please reach out to powerdns.id...@powerdns.com! > > Bert > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pdns-users mailing list > Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com > http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users > _______________________________________________ Pdns-users mailing list Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users