Steven Crandell wrote: > I'm a long time BIND user and recent convert to PowerDNS. > I considered BIND-DLZ briefly but found that I wasn't excited about the DB > retro-fit on a piece of software that was previously very much meant to live > in the world of flat files. > My initial intent was to try PowerDNS first and then give BIND-DLZ a test > drive also, but I never got around to BIND-DLZ given how well PowerDNS > performed. > > My only beef with PDNS is the inability to use master-slave replication to > hosts that are not listed as type NS. > This is by design but it nevertheless got in my way. > I've since just set all domains to use native replication (e.g. db backend > repliciation, Postgres/Slony in this instance) and absolutely could not be > happier with the results. > > The amount of time I spend managing DNS has been reduced to almost nothing > given how easily I can script my large operations. > Still it pays to be wise: Use transactions!! >
Always, always, *always* use a transaction-aware database with PowerDNS. That said, I too am a happy user of PowerDNS using native database replication. The recent January 27 release added a lot of good stuff. ~Seth
