Re: [Pdns-users] evaluating powerdns web frontends

2011-10-19 Thread Nick Milas
On 19/10/2011 1:15 μμ, Angel Bosch Mora wrote: I just want to point that in case you use LDAP as backend there's a lot of customizable LDAP clients you can use. Angel, with such tools you manage the database, not DNS. Frontends (should) allow easy creation/maintenance of domains and RRs

Re: [Pdns-users] evaluating powerdns web frontends

2011-10-19 Thread Nick Milas
On 19/10/2011 12:51 μμ, Peter van Dijk wrote: What I am looking for: - any projects I missed Check GOSA which supports LDAP backend. - any and all opinions on any of the projects above Haven't used any (neither GOSA). - what information you would like to see in an overview of existing

Re: [Pdns-users] evaluating powerdns web frontends

2011-10-19 Thread Nick Milas
On 19/10/2011 1:33 μμ, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: And since we're nitpicking, let's call it a directory, shall we? :-) Or the DIT! ;-) I just wanted to use a more generic term to depict the difference between managing the data directly in their store (whatever the store) and managing them as DNS

Re: [Pdns-users] Question about Authoritative Server 3.0 and Recursor 3.3

2011-09-18 Thread Nick Milas
On 18/9/2011 10:08 μμ, IRCHeaven Technical Support wrote: Hello, I have a question about Authoritative Server 3.0 and Recursor 3.3 Is it possible to run this on one server and then make a master/slave configuration so that both servers has an Authoritative server and a recursor? I have

Re: [Pdns-users] LDAP backend and subdomain delegation

2011-09-12 Thread Nick Milas
On 12/9/2011 3:41 μμ, Cyril Jaquier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm trying to setup a subdomain delegation using the LDAP backend but did not manage to get it working so far. I found this post on the web and that is exactly the problem I'm facing: Hi Cyril,

Re: [Pdns-users] Error with pdns v3.0 RC3 with LDAP backend - queries return wrong results after backend connection is lost and re-established

2011-08-24 Thread Nick Milas
On 22/7/2011 8:32 μμ, Nick Milas wrote: On 21/7/2011 2:05 μμ, Nick Milas wrote: What I found by further testing (disabled recursor running on the same machine) is that, after pdns loses connection with ldap server, when ldap is available again pdns hangs... As a follow-up, I would like

Re: [Pdns-users] Error with pdns v3.0 RC3 with LDAP backend - queries return wrong results after backend connection is lost and re-established

2011-07-22 Thread Nick Milas
On 21/7/2011 2:05 μμ, Nick Milas wrote: What I found by further testing (disabled recursor running on the same machine) is that, after pdns loses connection with ldap server, when ldap is available again pdns hangs... As a follow-up, I would like to note that this problem seems to have been

[Pdns-users] Error with pdns v3.0 RC3 with LDAP backend - queries return wrong results after backend connection is lost and re-established

2011-07-21 Thread Nick Milas
Hi, This (most probably) has to do with the fix of Ticket #260. I noticed that in case pdns loses contact with the backend ldap server, when it recovers, it no more returns correct results to DNS queries. For some hosts it returns only A record, for others only record and in some cases

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0-rc3 (FINAL!) released

2011-07-20 Thread Nick Milas
Hi, I have installed http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/rpm/pdns-static-3.0rc3-1.x86_64.rpm and I am trying to run it on CentOS 5.6 x86_64 with LDAP backend, but it doesn't seem to work (does this static package support LDAP?): Jul 20 09:14:40 dns2 pdns[11633]: Guardian is launching an

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0-rc3 (FINAL!) released

2011-07-20 Thread Nick Milas
On 20/7/2011 9:36 πμ, bert hubert wrote: Kees Monshouwer usually builds CentOS native packages for PowerDNS releases, I hope he'll find the time shortly! If he also can document (in detail!) the process of building these packages, we will appreciate that! This will enable other people to

Re: [Pdns-users] Fwd: Re: PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0-rc3 (FINAL!) released

2011-07-20 Thread Nick Milas
On 20/7/2011 12:14 μμ, Kees Monshouwer wrote: Hello Nick Starting with version 3 you need them at runtime... On 20-7-2011 10:33, Nick Milas wrote: ...I was thinking that boost should be needed for development and not for completed RPMs. Am I right? OK, I first installed atrpms

Re: [Pdns-users] Status of the LDAP backend in 3.0 release

2011-07-15 Thread Nick Milas
On 7/7/2011 2:56 μμ, Nick Milas wrote: Could you please give us LDAP-backend users an update as we are closing to 3.0 release? [Parenthetically, I feel I must also refer here to the issue with pdns_control not working with LDAP backend to send Notify messages - old Bug #37 (closed

Re: [Pdns-users] Trouble compiling pdns 2.9.22 on Centos

2011-06-18 Thread Nick Milas
On 18/6/2011 4:33 μμ, Florian G. wrote: Thank you for the help. I was able to install boost 1.39 from the atrpms repository just fine, but I still get the Missing boost error. Hi Florian, I am afraid I am not an expert with compiling; what I usually do (on CentOS, when I plan to

[Pdns-users] Can we disable recursor caching for local authoritative zones?

2011-06-09 Thread Nick Milas
Hi, I am running powerdns authoritative (ldap backend) and recursor on the same box (latest stable versions). I have noticed that when I change something in my local authoritative zones, these changes are not directly reflected to client requests, obviously due to recursor's cache. Can I

Re: [Pdns-users] Can we disable recursor caching for local authoritative zones?

2011-06-09 Thread Nick Milas
On 9/6/2011 1:14 μμ, Nick Milas wrote: Can I somehow disable recursor's cache for specific domains (zones), in particular the (local) zones for which powerdns (running on the same box here, but could be running on a separate box as well) is authoritative? My setup is as follows (forgot

Re: [Pdns-users] MongoDB Backend merged Re: Mongo DB and PowerDNS part 3: Now with DNSSEC

2011-05-27 Thread Nick Milas
On 27/5/2011 12:59 πμ, fredrik danerklint wrote: Hopefully Bert can answer better than I can on this. Have you read the documentation about writeing a backend? http://doc.powerdns.com/master-backends.html It says that the backend only needs to have these two function to functions as a master

Re: [Pdns-users] MongoDB Backend merged Re: Mongo DB and PowerDNS part 3: Now with DNSSEC

2011-05-27 Thread Nick Milas
On 27/5/2011 10:16 πμ, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: If it were C, I could help you a bit -- the last time I looked (admittedly a few years ago), PowerDNS was written in C++ ;-) Thank you. Very kind of you. It must be C++. Unfortunately, I am unfamiliar with both (C, C++). I am an old tech guy:

[Pdns-users] svn access to pdns backends

2011-05-26 Thread Nick Milas
Hi, Can anyone please tell me how I can have svn access to pdns backends source tree? I used: svn co svn://svn.powerdns.com/pdns/trunk/pdns pdns as indicated here: http://wiki.powerdns.com/trac/wiki/HACKING but in there I only see gmysql and bind backends. I am mainly interested in

Re: [Pdns-users] svn access to pdns backends

2011-05-26 Thread Nick Milas
On 26/5/2011 11:13 πμ, Leen Besselink wrote: I see the directories and files in pdns/modules/ (not pdns/pdns/backends !!) Thanks, Leen. You are right. I was confused. I see I should not look into /pdns/pdns/backends but in /pdns/modules. Thanks, again Nick

Re: [Pdns-users] MongoDB Backend merged Re: Mongo DB and PowerDNS part 3: Now with DNSSEC

2011-05-26 Thread Nick Milas
On 26/5/2011 3:44 μμ, fredrik danerklint wrote: Nick, To answer all of your questions, please take a look at the source file 'communicator.cc'. At the end of that file there is a function called void CommunicatorClass::mainloop(void) that checks slave and master every other

Re: [Pdns-users] MongoDB Backend merged Re: Mongo DB and PowerDNS part 3: Now with DNSSEC

2011-05-25 Thread Nick Milas
On 14/4/2011 9:30 μμ, bert hubert wrote: Hi Fredrik, I have just merged it with the build system based on your latest version. It is part of build 2163, and will be shipped as 'experimental' with version 3.0. Hi Fredrik and all, I see here: http://doc.powerdns.com/mongo.html that

Re: [Pdns-users] MongoDB Backend merged Re: Mongo DB and PowerDNS part 3: Now with DNSSEC

2011-05-25 Thread Nick Milas
On 25/5/2011 11:25 μμ, fredrik danerklint wrote: PowerDNS ask each backend for domains which has a different 'notified_serial' than 'serial' for the domain. Thanks Fredrik for the info. If I understand it right, 'notified_serial' is the one PowerDNS knows as current for a domain, and

Re: [Pdns-users] Status of the LDAP backend in 3.0 release

2011-05-16 Thread Nick Milas
On 15/5/2011 12:47 μμ, Nick Milas wrote: I saw the 2193 tarball. I'll try to compile and test it tomorrow (Monday). I am having a hard time trying to compile it. I installed (from CentOS repos) boost: boost-1.33.1-10.el5 boost-devel-1.33.1-10.el5 but I was getting: checking

Re: [Pdns-users] Status of the LDAP backend in 3.0 release

2011-05-16 Thread Nick Milas
On 16/5/2011 12:50 μμ, Imre Gergely wrote: I think you need boost =1.34, the default version in CentOS 5 is not enough. Thank you. I thought 103400 meant v1.03.4 but it seems you are right, it obviously means v1.34. So, I installed (from the EPEL repo) packages boost141 and

Re: [Pdns-users] Status of the LDAP backend in 3.0 release

2011-05-15 Thread Nick Milas
On 14/5/2011 10:12 μμ, bert hubert wrote: Well, you are proof that if you keep nagging you might get your way. 2193 has the fix for 313 suggested in that URL, it is building now. Thanks, Bert. After all, you know that I am not just nagging, I have invested *a lot* of time to prove the ldap

Re: [Pdns-users] Status of the LDAP backend in 3.0 release

2011-05-13 Thread Nick Milas
On 30/4/2011 11:00 πμ, Nick Milas wrote: (i) It would not be difficult to include at least the proposed patch for Ticket #313 (http://mailman.powerdns.com/pipermail/pdns-users/2010-September/007004.html) in one v3.0 build so we can install and test. (ii) I would encourage

[Pdns-users] Some DNS performance tests with various PDNS backends and BIND9

2011-05-11 Thread Nick Milas
Hello, Just in case someone would like to examine some comparative performance results re. various PowerDNS backends with ref. to BIND9, I am posting the following tests. In case you think something should be changed in the setup to make results more objective, please let me know.

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns/ldap funding, how much?

2011-05-05 Thread Nick Milas
On 6/5/2011 12:04 am, Christopher Wood wrote: 2) There are people in the PowerDNS community developing maintaining it. 3) There are end-users with support contracts that need it, or there are end-users willing to fund the development directly. -- I don't

Re: [Pdns-users] Sorting of DNS responses

2011-05-02 Thread Nick Milas
On 2/5/2011 10:00 πμ, Roland Schwingel wrote: I subscribed the day I wrote this post and have read the posts appearing since than about the LDAP backend. I am a bit astonished about this. In my eyes the LDAP backend is THE key benefit of powerdns. The easiness in setting it up and it's

[Pdns-users] PowerDNS use statistics

2011-05-02 Thread Nick Milas
Hello, I have been trying to find stats on PowerDNS global use for some time now, but I had not much luck. The only sources I found were: http://mailman.powerdns.com/pipermail/pdns-dev/2005-October/000347.html and http://dns.measurement-factory.com/surveys/ The second shows low numbers for

Re: [Pdns-users] Status of the LDAP backend in 3.0 release

2011-05-01 Thread Nick Milas
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

Re: [Pdns-users] Status of the LDAP backend in 3.0 release

2011-05-01 Thread Nick Milas
On 30/4/2011 2:09 μμ, Angel Bosch Mora wrote: there's also bindings for every coding language, so as you said anyone can create their own tool. I forgot to comment that you are very right in that. For example: * PHP ldap bindings are great (we have used this API in our web

Re: [Pdns-users] Sorting of DNS responses

2011-05-01 Thread Nick Milas
On 29/4/2011 10:43 πμ, Roland Schwingel wrote: I am using pdns 2.9.22 with ldap backend for many months now. It works very nice and without troubles.Thanks for this... Maybe I am too dump to find this in the docu but I need to sort the responses of dns replies according to where the request

Re: [Pdns-users] Status of the LDAP backend in 3.0 release

2011-04-30 Thread Nick Milas
On 23/3/2011 11:05 πμ, bert hubert wrote: To clarify, PowerDNS development happens because one or more of the following three reasons: ... We also develop quite some things because, frankly, we find them cool For LDAP, right now none if these things is the case. 1) We don't feel that LDAP is

Re: [Pdns-users] Status of the LDAP backend in 3.0 release

2011-04-30 Thread Nick Milas
On 30/4/2011 2:09 μμ, Angel Bosch Mora wrote: this is inacurate. LDAP has a lot of multi-platform front-ends, most of them really customizable. there's also bindings for every coding language, so as you said anyone can create their own tool. Hi Angel, You are partly right: yes, there are

Re: [Pdns-users] Status of the LDAP backend in 3.0 release

2011-04-20 Thread Nick Milas
On 15/4/2011 3:30 μμ, Nick Milas wrote: It's been 10 days (two business weeks) since your last update. Any news for us anxious pdns/ldap users? :-) Hi Udo, I don't want to make you feel pressure, but it's been 16 days since we last heard from you, and you were estimating to publish fixes

Re: [Pdns-users] Status of the LDAP backend in 3.0 release

2011-04-15 Thread Nick Milas
On 4/4/2011 12:44, Udo Rader wrote: yes, I took a look on the issues and will put some work into fixing them. From my POV #260 will be the first and most important thing to deal with. #317 looks trivial to fix, but as mentioned in the bug report, side effect may exist. ... ETA for the fixes

Re: [Pdns-users] Forward IPv6 Requests?

2011-03-30 Thread Nick Milas
On 30/3/2011 7:41 μμ, Pascal R. wrote: HI, my PDNS currently do IPv4 recursion with the following config: recursor=8.8.8.8 How can i add an IPV6 Recorder to the pdns.conf ? This is what I use in my pdns.conf: local-address=127.0.0.1 10.10.10.10 do-ipv6-additional-processing=yes

Re: [Pdns-users] Status of the LDAP backend in 3.0 release

2011-03-25 Thread Nick Milas
I wanted to quickly chime in on this. I agree with the decision to move the LDAP backend into unmaintained status and not fix these bugs right now. If there isn't a big enough community demand to supply the resources needed to maintain it, then there likely isn't a big enough demand to make

Re: [Pdns-users] Status of the LDAP backend in 3.0 release

2011-03-24 Thread Nick Milas
On 03/24/2011 11:36 AM, Nick Milas wrote: On 24/3/2011 10:11 πμ, Angel Bosch Mora wrote: what about a community donation? we could create a ticket with all people interested in this feature and how much can they contribute. i think there's more people than we thing using LDAP backend. I

Re: [Pdns-users] Status of the LDAP backend in 3.0 release

2011-03-24 Thread Nick Milas
On 24/3/2011 12:55 μμ, Udo Rader wrote: On the other hand, I perfectly understand Bert's POV on the issue, so I what I can offer is taking a look on the open issues and maybe - if time allows - putting some manpower to it, but I will first have a look at the issues myself. Thanks Udo, As I

Re: [Pdns-users] Status of the LDAP backend in 3.0 release

2011-03-24 Thread Nick Milas
Sorry, the following was sent by mistake! Please ignore (the message is already in the list, sent by Udo Rader)! Nick On 24/3/2011 1:03 μμ, Nick Milas wrote: On 03/24/2011 11:36 AM, Nick Milas wrote: On 24/3/2011 10:11 πμ, Angel Bosch Mora wrote: what about a community donation? we could

Re: [Pdns-users] Heading up to PowerDNS Authoritative Server release 3.0: please check your open tickets

2011-03-23 Thread Nick Milas
Good news about upcoming version. However, not so good news for the LDAP backend... So, I feel that LDAP-related issues should - at least - remain open, since they have not been fixed. Closing them with an indication of Unable to devote time to the LDAP backend (or similar), would most

Re: [Pdns-users] Status of the LDAP backend in 3.0 release

2011-03-23 Thread Nick Milas
On 23/3/2011 11:05 πμ, bert hubert wrote: Unless something happens, the LDAP backend will move to 'unmaintained' status in the 3.0 release. I think this attitude is the best. At least new admins planning DNS server deployment *will know* that they should probably keep off LDAP backend, since

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns error sendto

2011-02-28 Thread Nick Milas
In CentOS 5, I directly edit iptables file. I'm using the following DNS rules for iptables (as suggested by RH/CentOS), and I have no problems with DNS servers: -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport

[Pdns-users] LDAP Backend maintainance/development

2011-02-01 Thread Nick Milas
Hi Kenneth, Sorry for the (slightly) delayed reply. Your arguments are valid; I hope that LDAP PDNS community can find a way to cooperate to at least succeed in maintaining the LDAP backend (even without adding much new functionality - as DNSSEC -, at this stage). I have earlier mentioned

Re: [Pdns-users] DNSSec for other backends?

2011-01-25 Thread Nick Milas
Hi Bert and all, I am sure there is some plan (by the powerDNS project managers) to continue Norbert's great work on the LDAP backend. One of the powerful features of powerDNS over other products is the strong and elegant operation with an LDAP backend, which - as I have read in numerous

Re: [Pdns-users] Problem with aRecord matching in ldap backend

2011-01-16 Thread Nick Milas
Thanks Norbert, Although the OpenLDAP guys would not encourage such a change (and, formally speaking, they are right), since the aRecord attribute definition (in the standard distribution cosine.schema file) is according to RFC 1274 without a SUBSTR matching rule, I guess it's the easiest

Re: [Pdns-users] DNSSec for other backends?

2011-01-16 Thread Nick Milas
μμ, bert hubert wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 01:24:53PM +0200, Nick Milas wrote: Just wondering, will DNSSec be supported soon with other backends except relational databases? Yes, but it depends on the maintainer. For LDAP, Norbert Sendetzky would need to do the heavy lifting, since

Re: [Pdns-users] Problem with aRecord matching in ldap backend

2011-01-12 Thread Nick Milas
Any suggestions? Norbert, any advice? Could you please clarify? Thanks very much, Nick On 8/1/2011 2:08 μμ, Nick Milas wrote: Hi, This is more of an LDAP question, but it is directly connected to powerdns/ldap-backend, so I need some feedback: I am trying to select particular records

[Pdns-users] DNSSec for other backends?

2011-01-11 Thread Nick Milas
Hi, Just wondering, will DNSSec be supported soon with other backends except relational databases? I'm most interested in LDAP backend. Any plans? Which backends will Authoritative Server 3.0 support (except of course the dbase ones mentioned above)? Thanks, Nick

[Pdns-users] Problem with aRecord matching in ldap backend

2011-01-08 Thread Nick Milas
Hi, This is more of an LDAP question, but it is directly connected to powerdns/ldap-backend, so I need some feedback: I am trying to select particular records based on their aRecord attribute in openldap (dns records stored in ldap backend - simple mode). So I am trying to use - in

Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS and external CNAME

2010-12-16 Thread Nick Milas
Hi, We are using powerdns authoritative (latest version: 2.9.22) with ldap backend and recursor latest version (3.3). CNAME to external hosts works fine. This is the record: dn: dc=myhost,dc=example.com,ou=dns,dc=example,dc=com objectClass: dNSDomain2 objectClass:

Re: [Pdns-users] Outgoing timouts problem (?)

2010-12-06 Thread Nick Milas
Thanks Ken, It makes sense. Since no one has send any other info, I assume you are correct. Regards, Nick On 4/12/2010 5:35 μμ, Kenneth Marshall wrote: My two cents and I am certain that someone will correct me if I am mistaken, but the outgoing timeouts are when the remote site does not

[Pdns-users] Outgoing timouts problem (?)

2010-12-04 Thread Nick Milas
entries, 63% packet cache hits Dec 4 11:39:03 vdns pdns_recursor[2217]: stats: 0 qps (average over 1935 seconds) Thanks in advance, Nick Milas ___ Pdns-users mailing list Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Pdns-users] Can't make AXFR work with LDAP backend

2010-12-03 Thread Nick Milas
Hi, I never had problems with AXFR between powerdns authoritative server and BIND9, but the problem was in Notify messages. You may want to read the threads: Can pdns (with ldap backend) be a master of BIND9 slave?: