This is very nice! Personally, I've never used PowerDNS before so, time to give it a shot when 4.0 arrives on Xenial! Congrats!
Does it have a good integration with OpenStack (specially Designate or something like DNSaaS)? Cheers! On 5 February 2016 at 12:25, Pieter Lexis <pieter.le...@powerdns.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Just before Christmas, we released alpha1 of both the PowerDNS Authoritative > Server and the PowerDNS Recursor[1]. These have been packaged by Debian and > uploaded to their unstable branch. Both pieces of software have several known > issues (like forward-zones leading to process termination in the Recursor[2] > or a temporary database error crashing the Authoritative Server[3]) that are > fixed in the current master branch. > > We intend to release an alpha2 for both before the Xenial Debian Import > Freeze on February 18th, but don't know how fast Debian will have this > packaged and if it will land in Xenial. > > We believe that the alpha1 packages cannot be released with an Ubuntu LTS (or > any Ubuntu release for that matter) because of the stability issues noted > above (not to mention the amount of bug reports these packages might > produce). We have 2 ideas on how this can be fixed. > > The first one is: revert to using 3.4.8 (Authoritative Server) and 3.7.3 > (Recursor), this is possibly the easiest thing to do, although it breaks the > upgrade for current Xenial users/testers (which is a small price to pay). > > The second one is to start the procedure to have a Freeze Exception[4] for > the source packages `pdns` and `pdns-recursor`, allowing the upgrade from > alpha1 to alpha2 to beta and to final release, after which the normal Ubuntu > update policy will be in effect (security and critical bug fixes only). > > We would like to know your opinion in this matter. > > Best regards, > > Pieter Lexis > > 1 - > http://blog.powerdns.com/2015/12/24/technical-preview-releases-of-authoritative-server-recursor-and-dnsdist/ > 2 - https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/pull/3244 > 3 - https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/pull/3166 > 4 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess > > -- > Pieter Lexis > PowerDNS.COM BV -- https://www.powerdns.com > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
