Jan-Piet Mens wrote: > I have started working on a book focused primarily on authoritative DNS > servers (PowerDNS, MaraDNS, MyDNS) as well as BIND with the SDB back-end > and DLZ BIND. The book shall *not* be a "this server is better than that > one" but rather an insight into the individual programs, their features, > strengths, and perhaps also their weaknesses. > > I intend to also focus on LDAP and SQL back-ends (where applicable) and > concentrate mainly on authoritative servers, only slightly touching on > recursive name servers. > > I've contacted the maintainers of the programs asking whether they know > of any books which discuss these programs, and some of them have > answered my query. :-) > > You could help to turn this project into something useful by giving me > pointers on which topics (for the individual name server software) you > would consider most useful to have included in a book. I'm also open to > any ideas you might have or perhaps even wishes for topics.
Ok I recently had to do a lot of optimisation work on MySQL and I found a lot of contradicting opinions on what to do etc etc etc, then I came across this page: http://day32.com/MySQL/ on it there is a script someone wrote, he made claims about maintaining 7000 linux servers running MySQL, and the outputted hints from the script helped me no end. http://day32.com/MySQL/tuning-primer.sh Since following the advice/suggestions of the script I've stopped allocating too much or too little ram for MySQL. > I had contemplated NSD, but I'd have thought that it isn't used very > much. I'd be willing to be convinced of the opposite, though. > > Thoughts? NSD is used in combination as some of the root name servers (H, K and L) these are anycast servers and all the servers for that root run the same software afaik. All other root servers run BIND. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_nameserver So I think it is very much used ;) -- Best regards, Duane http://www.freeauth.org - Enterprise Two Factor Authentication http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom http://e164.org - Because e164.arpa is a tax on VoIP "In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip." _______________________________________________ Pdns-users mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users
