Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor Lua scripting

2008-06-16 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 08:41:12PM +0200, Christopher Arnold wrote: > Is there any plans to add lua support to the resolver so we can add > loadbalancing etc. on a global scale for people accessing servers? The recursor already has the 'pipe' backend allowing backends to be written in any program

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor Lua scripting

2008-06-16 Thread Christopher Arnold
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008, bert hubert wrote: From the provisional 3.1.7 release notes: This version contains powerful scripting abilities, allowing operators to modify DNS responses in many interesting ways. Among other things, these abilities can be used to filter out malware domains, to pe

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor Lua scripting

2008-06-15 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 04:21:39PM -0700, Sargun Dhillon wrote: > How are you compiling the Lua script? How exactly are you executing > it? What sort of memory overhead can this create? Everything is done using native Lua calls. The memory overhead should be very small. The Lua interpreter runs wi

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor Lua scripting

2008-06-15 Thread Chet Nichols III
oh nice.. i'll have to check that out. some guy in-house ended up implementing domain redirection in pdns for a project we were doing (sorry my company never ended up contacting you re: paid work. after i realized they were nothing but talk, i told them i wont be the middle-man anymore, because tha

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor Lua scripting

2008-06-15 Thread Sargun Dhillon
How are you compiling the Lua script? How exactly are you executing it? What sort of memory overhead can this create? -Thanks On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 2:16 PM, bert hubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:04:53PM +0200, Norbert Sendetzky wrote: >> Interesting concept. >> Wha

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor Lua scripting

2008-06-15 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:04:53PM +0200, Norbert Sendetzky wrote: > Interesting concept. > What about performance if scripting abilities are compiled in? > Do you have any figures when simple scripts are used? If the abilities are compiled in, but no script is loaded, the impact should be immeasu

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor Lua scripting

2008-06-15 Thread Norbert Sendetzky
On Sunday 15 June 2008 22:57:49 bert hubert wrote: > Over the past week, together with a number of PowerDNS users and Lua > experts, I've added support for scripting the PowerDNS Recursor to do > interesting things. Interesting concept. What about performance if scripting abilities are compiled in

[Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor Lua scripting

2008-06-15 Thread bert hubert
Hi everybody, Over the past week, together with a number of PowerDNS users and Lua experts, I've added support for scripting the PowerDNS Recursor to do interesting things. >From the provisional 3.1.7 release notes: This version contains powerful scripting abilities, allowing operators to mo