[Pdns-users] Backend Performance MySQL vs. PostgreSQL

2011-04-05 Thread Max Clark
Hello, I'm looking for any published information for the performance characteristics of MySQL vs. PostgreSQL as a PDNS backend. Granted there are unlimited tuning options for the backends - I'm just looking for a good starting point. Responses off list would be fine. Thanks, Max

[Pdns-users] pdns_control rediscover

2010-09-15 Thread Max Clark
Hello, I have a set of pdns slaves running with the bind backend. When adding new zones to the configuration file we are running pdns_control rediscover to reload the zones: # pdns_control rediscover Sep 15 00:37:27 ns01 pdns[38478]: [bindbackend] error at Wed Sep 15 00:37:27 2010 parsing

[Pdns-users] Failsafe Replication

2009-08-24 Thread Max Clark
Hello, I have been evaluating alternate DNS topologies to our current configuration. Ideally I would prefer an architecture where the master is hidden, and that the public slaves can run independent without dependance on an external process (i.e. mysql). Initially I was under the impression that

[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

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 right

[Pdns-users] Redundant Database Connections

2007-06-07 Thread Max Clark
Hi all, Is it possible to configure powerdns to connect to two mysql servers at the same time for redundancy? If the first db is unavailable I would like to query the second. Thanks, Max -- Max Clark http://www.clarksys.com ___ Pdns-users mailing

Re: [Pdns-users] Redundant Database Connections

2007-06-07 Thread Max Clark
Hi all, Is it possible to configure powerdns to connect to two mysql servers at the same time for redundancy? If the first db is unavailable I would like to query the second. Thanks, Max -- Max Clark http://www.clarksys.com Hi Max, this might work the same way like answered to my

Re: [Pdns-users] Redundant Database Connections

2007-06-07 Thread Max Clark
. The opendbx backend has built-in fail-over capabilities and is able to use two or more MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. server for redundancy. Norbert -- OpenPGP public key http://www.linuxnetworks.de/norbert.pubkey.asc -- Max Clark http://www.clarksys.com

[Pdns-users] Re: Mysql based supermaster to bind based slave?

2007-04-27 Thread Max Clark
, Max Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, We are currently running pdns with a mysql backend and relying on mysql master-slave replication to keep our records up to date. While we want to keep the mysql backend for the master due to ease of use and the ability to integrate our own custome front

[Pdns-users] Mysql based supermaster to bind based slave?

2007-04-12 Thread Max Clark
. Thanks in advance, Max -- Max Clark http://www.clarksys.com ___ Pdns-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users