Re: [Pdns-users] This can't be right - DNS Load Test Results

2007-11-30 Thread Max Clark
Bert, I'll try those settings when I run through the next series of load tests. > Having said all this - actual powerdns performance problems are very rare in > the real world, and the million domain+ installations keep chugging along > nicely. We have approximately 7k domains in our system righ

Re: [Pdns-users] New to powerdns

2007-11-30 Thread Joe Sloan
Gregory King wrote: > Hi Joe, > > I use POWERadmin which is a web based front end to PDNS. Hmm, odd. I wonder if it was only meant to work with older versions of php or something. After installing the code, and configuring config.inc.php, I get a blank page when I access install.php (which was c

Re: [Pdns-users] This can't be right - DNS Load Test Results

2007-11-30 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 11:06:06AM -0800, Max Clark wrote: > I recently ran a series of dns load tests against various dns servers > and have been greatly surprised by the results > (http://www.clarksys.com/2007/11/20/dns_load_testing_results/) - in > this test PDNS was slightly faster than TinyDNS

Re: [Pdns-users] This can't be right - DNS Load Test Results

2007-11-30 Thread Duane
Max Clark wrote: > I recently ran a series of dns load tests against various dns servers > and have been greatly surprised by the results > (http://www.clarksys.com/2007/11/20/dns_load_testing_results/) - in > this test PDNS was slightly faster than TinyDNS and half as fast as > BIND. Because the q

Re: [Pdns-users] This can't be right - DNS Load Test Results

2007-11-30 Thread Duane
Max Clark wrote: > I recently ran a series of dns load tests against various dns servers > and have been greatly surprised by the results > (http://www.clarksys.com/2007/11/20/dns_load_testing_results/) - in > this test PDNS was slightly faster than TinyDNS and half as fast as > BIND. Because the q

Re: [Pdns-users] New to powerdns

2007-11-30 Thread Gregory King
Hi Joe, I use POWERadmin which is a web based front end to PDNS. Greg > One main points of pdns which interested me is the sql back end, which > promises greater manageability *if* we find some sort of tool which > could serve as an administrative front end to that dns data. I've looked > at a

Re: [Pdns-users] problem with naptr answer

2007-11-30 Thread Duane
bert hubert wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 07:56:18AM -0800, Eli.Birova wrote: >> I am using 2.9.20 on Debian with gpgsql backend. We are trying to set up > > Quick answer is that NAPTR received a lot of fixes in 2.9.21, so perhaps you > could try that. We've been using NAPTR records in PowerDN

Re: [Pdns-users] New to powerdns

2007-11-30 Thread Brendan Oakley
On Nov 30, 2007 2:21 PM, Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Brendan, Hi. > But bind does have issues, for instance, the fact that every time we > restart it, it becomes fairly comatose and thrashes the CPU for about 5 > minutes, while loading up all the zones: > > And we have to restart it fai

Re: [Pdns-users] New to powerdns

2007-11-30 Thread Sloan
Brendan Oakley wrote: > I would rank our installation as large. Not large like eBay but larger > than average to be sure. I can testify that the performance of > PowerDNS with the BIND backend, when compared to BIND, at least in our > case, is astounding. When I replaced one particular BIND 9 serve

Re: [Pdns-users] New to powerdns

2007-11-30 Thread Brendan Oakley
On Nov 30, 2007 10:25 AM, Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, > > I've been a bind admin for some years, but have recently installed pdns > at home with a view to installing it for some IT clients. I've been > fairly impressed with it so far. Anybody here using it in a large > installati

[Pdns-users] This can't be right - DNS Load Test Results

2007-11-30 Thread Max Clark
I recently ran a series of dns load tests against various dns servers and have been greatly surprised by the results (http://www.clarksys.com/2007/11/20/dns_load_testing_results/) - in this test PDNS was slightly faster than TinyDNS and half as fast as BIND. Because the query set was highly repetit

[Pdns-users] New to powerdns

2007-11-30 Thread Sloan
Hello list, I've been a bind admin for some years, but have recently installed pdns at home with a view to installing it for some IT clients. I've been fairly impressed with it so far. Anybody here using it in a large installation? Any anecdotes about reliability, performance etc as compared to is

Re: [Pdns-users] problem with naptr answer

2007-11-30 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 07:56:18AM -0800, Eli.Birova wrote: > I am using 2.9.20 on Debian with gpgsql backend. We are trying to set up Quick answer is that NAPTR received a lot of fixes in 2.9.21, so perhaps you could try that. Good luck! -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database dr

[Pdns-users] problem with naptr answer

2007-11-30 Thread Eli.Birova
Hi All, I am using 2.9.20 on Debian with gpgsql backend. We are trying to set up pdns to be used for enum lookup from an SBC. The problem is that the SBC is expecting to receive the NAPTR answer in the following form: 100 10 "u" "E2U+sip" "!^.*$!sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and the answer comes as fol

[Pdns-users] Mailing list downtime

2007-11-30 Thread bert hubert
Dear PowerDNS friends, Due to a recent mistake in moving our servers, the mailing lists have been offline for most of the past week. While everything should be in working order, please let me know (privately) if you experience problem accessing any of our web pages. Kind regards, Bert Hubert Po

Re: [Pdns-users] recursor config reload without restart

2007-11-30 Thread Leo Baltus
Op 21/11/2007 om 12:49:01 -0800, schreef Brendan Oakley: > On Nov 16, 2007 6:25 AM, Leo Baltus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, if I may jump in, the formward-zones-file would be really nice. > > Is this not already possible with 'rec_control reload-zones'? It works > for forward-zones, I have

[Pdns-users] Slave zones never refresh if the refresh value is too high

2007-11-30 Thread Brendan Oakley
Hello. I am running PowerDNS 2.9.21 with only the BIND backend, as a slave for a number of zones. We have discovered that only some of the zone files on a server refresh, while others do not. There is no problem transferring any of the zones, and no errors. It is simply that it only knows it need

Re: [Pdns-users] adding non-native replication to existing shared backend

2007-11-30 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 02:31:52PM -0800, Jeffrey Wong wrote: > Bandwidth is limited, so I don't want to have to send all the > replication logs to the extra server. And I need to send all the > replication logs to a different server dedicated to keeping a backup > of all the databases. > > Thank

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS MySQL API in Perl by a PowerDNS user

2007-11-30 Thread James Cloos
I've been thinking about this as well, but haven't gotten to a postable solution yet. Incidently, I use pgsql rather than mysql, and that probably affects my design choices) My thought is that there should be a table for each major type of RR (such as rr.a, rr.mx, rr., etc) with rr-epcifi

[Pdns-users] Re: Re: Re: forward-zones syntax for multiple IPs

2007-11-30 Thread Brendan Oakley
Hello. On 09/10/07, Augie Schwer wrote: > On 5/19/06, Augie Schwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/18/06, bert hubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I might add this. Add a feature ticket for it on wiki.powerdns.com (yes, > > > I'll try to delete the spam, trac does not make this easy). > >