Re: [Pdns-users] Multi server deployment

2010-11-12 Thread Josh Berry
Hi Atha, Just though I would add that this is exactly how we do things where I work, but with an additional layer that may or may not be necessary for you. We have our slaves behind load balancers (Nortel Alteon's in our case) that can do UDP session balancing so that there is literally no down

Re: [Pdns-users] Multi server deployment

2010-11-10 Thread Frank Louwers
On 10 Nov 2010 wk 45, at 17:53, Atha Kouroussis wrote: > Thanks everybody for you responses. This is what we are going for in our > final deployment: > > - A master MySQL database holding all the domains. This is the database the > provisioning system talks to > - n PowerDNS servers with their

Re: [Pdns-users] Multi server deployment

2010-11-10 Thread Tonix (Antonio Nati)
It looks like you are going to have two different architectures/environments, one with automatic replica for internal usage, and one with network replica for customers needing only a secondary nameserver. Personally, I would keep two separated architectures. Cheers, Tonino Il 10/11/2010 17:

Re: [Pdns-users] Multi server deployment

2010-11-10 Thread Atha Kouroussis
Thanks everybody for you responses. This is what we are going for in our final deployment: - A master MySQL database holding all the domains. This is the database the provisioning system talks to - n PowerDNS servers with their local MySQL database acting as slave of the master database - A sep

Re: [Pdns-users] Multi server deployment

2010-11-10 Thread Mark Felder
I don't know what other people think about this, but I was planning for our deployment to have a pdns server with a MySQL backend that would be private (nobody can query it directly) and then have our other DNS servers that receive updates from it use a file backend because it's less compli

Re: [Pdns-users] Multi server deployment

2010-11-10 Thread Nick Williams
Atha, Indeed I must not have understood you quite properly. Why would you need even need slave updates and/or master-master replication? The various PDNS servers in this setup are all acting independently without any knowledge of each other. They are all neither masters nor slaves, depending on

Re: [Pdns-users] Multi server deployment

2010-11-10 Thread Frank Louwers
On 10 Nov 2010 wk 45, at 16:14, Atha Kouroussis wrote: > Hi Nick, > thank you for your quick answer! > > Obviously I didn't make myself clear in my email, since the second scenario > we are contemplating, is very similar to what you described: one master > backend, and then each pdns server ea

Re: [Pdns-users] Multi server deployment

2010-11-10 Thread Imre Gergely
+1 for this configuration and +1 for the excellent writeup :) On 11/10/2010 05:01 PM, Nick Williams wrote: > Atha, > > Let me share with you what we did at the company I used to work for (and > this is an identical configuration to what I have setup for myself). We > don't have master and slave

Re: [Pdns-users] Multi server deployment

2010-11-10 Thread Atha Kouroussis
Hi Nick, thank you for your quick answer! Obviously I didn't make myself clear in my email, since the second scenario we are contemplating, is very similar to what you described: one master backend, and then each pdns server each with its own slave backend. And I do see the advantages in robust

Re: [Pdns-users] Multi server deployment

2010-11-10 Thread Frank Louwers
He Atha, We did the name thing Nick did, and I have two recommendation to his (excellent) writeup: * we do have one pdns that talks directly to the mysql master. The reason is that we offer backup dns services for some customers that have their own primary dns server. We use the supermaster fe

Re: [Pdns-users] Multi server deployment

2010-11-10 Thread Nick Williams
Atha, Let me share with you what we did at the company I used to work for (and this is an identical configuration to what I have setup for myself). We don't have master and slave PDNS servers. We have "workers" of sorts. Our master and slaves are the MySQL backends. We have a master MySQL serv

[Pdns-users] Multi server deployment

2010-11-10 Thread Atha Kouroussis
Hi all, we are looking to migrate from bind to PowerDNS with MySQL backend. Our initial tests have gone really well and we are now looking into finalizing the architecture for the final deployment and migration. In that respect we have a couple of doubts. Since we are going to be using the MySQ