[BlueOnyx:20558] MyDNS alternative PowerDNS?

[Michael Stauber]

Hi all,

Is anyone here using PowerDNS as DNS server or has some experience or
recommendations about it?

I ask because I'm looking for an alternative to MyDNS/MyDNS-NG.

In specific I'm looking for an easy alternative to migrate away from
MyDNS onto something that's still actively maintained, modern, secure
and allows for the most simplistic and robust way to share zones between
different DNS servers without having to hack in every single zone that
the slave should have as well.

MyDNS fit the bill many years ago, as it stores the DNS records in
MySQL. Which easily allows you to set up MySQL database replication or
(if redundancy isn't an issue) let all DNS servers poll the same SQL
server. However, it's development seems to be as dead as a doorknob. So
I think it's time to migrate away from it.

PowerDNS seems to be a modern alternative: https://www.powerdns.com/

There is also a PHP GUI available for it: http://www.poweradmin.org/

I installed both on a test box and was able to haggle something together
with which I could import my SQL based zones from MyDNS and it looks
kinda neat. PowerDNS can either do traditional zone files, or use
various backends such as MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres and a few others.

So I'm wondering if someone is using it (or has been using it) and has
some recommendations.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber