[BlueOnyx:20582] Re: MyDNS alternative PowerDNS?

[Maillists]

Hi Michael,

We have been using PowerDNS on Centos for many years now. We have it setup on a dedicated server with auto update to a non-dedicated secondary. It has been very reliable, mass changes are easy at a SQL level and the GUI is easy to use. The GUI has a couple of small annoying features, but nothing that impacts the functionality.

Updates don't happen all that often, but there have been some recent ones through YUM.

Any DNS issues are well logged and informative, but they don't come through in Logwatch unfortunately.

Regards,
Noel

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From: Blueonyx [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it] On Behalf Of Michael Stauber
Sent: Saturday, 21 January 2017 7:00 PM
To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it>
Subject: [BlueOnyx:20558] MyDNS alternative PowerDNS?

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.

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With best regards

Michael Stauber
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