As a long, long, long time user of Bind (and quite frankly not being the only one by far) I’m afraid I’m losing faith. Yes, Bind still does what it does (which is: being a kickass name server or DNS) and does it well,but today a colleague introduced me to PowerDNS. Whoa!
Why I like it? Well, aside from being a Dutch product (yay!), and of course FOSS, it has a staggering amount of back-end possibilities. A list, you say? Here goes:
- Bind and Bind2 regular zone files
- DB2 database
- geo information
- MySQL database
- PostgreSQL database
- Oracle database
- SQLite database
- LDAP directory
- *any* ODBC-coupled database
- *any* OpenDBX library supporting database (like MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Firebird, Interbase, SQL Server and Sybase ASE)
- Pipes (yes, ask any outside process for answers)
- random (eh?)
- xdb tables on disk
Holy crap, that realy is a bloody long list. And it’s fast and powerful, does all you want from it (i.e.: answer DNS queries) and does is well. It’s very simple to set up, runs like a charm, easy.
I think I’m in love.
