Dear PowerDNS Users & interested parties, As you may know, we've recently built a PowerDNS DNSSEC proof of concept (which can be viewed 'in action' on http://www.powerdnssec.org).
Although the proof of concept works, and could be merged with the open source version of PowerDNS, it is expected to require a lot of additional maintenance and development to keep up with changing DNSSEC requirements and operational practices. The original development of PowerDNS was funded by its investors, and its ongoing maintenance is made possible by support contracts with PowerDNS users. The DNSSEC enhancement however will need to finance itself. The goals are to: * Add full support for DNSSEC hosting to the PowerDNS Authoritative Server * In such a way that operational overhead of DNSSEC is acceptable to large scale DNS operators * Automatic signing with high scalability and limited (commodity) hardware investment * So existing DNS Management GUIs continue to work 'live' * Fully automated key rollover & signature regeneration procedures * With debugging facilities that large scale deployments need in order to diagnose issues * Author documentation, with tutorials to make migration easy and trouble free. * Convince at least one '100,000+' zone PowerDNS deployment to turn on DNSSEC * Provide maintenance and support for DNSSEC in PowerDNS until this becomes commercially self-sustaining * Eventually add DNSSEC support to the PowerDNS Recursor as well. All parties with an interest in PowerDNS and/or DNSSEC are therefore kindly requested to contact me privately if they are in a position to either acquire a support contract with us, or to fund DNSSEC development directly. If you are interested, or know someone who might be, please let us know and we can send you the 'PowerDNS DNSSEC Enhancement Project Proposal', which includes the budget we are trying to raise. Kind regards, Bert Hubert CTO PowerDNS.COM BV -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed source services _______________________________________________ Pdns-users mailing list Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users