Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS in an ISP environment

2011-08-17 Thread Augie Schwer
We at Sonic.net have been running PowerDNS authoritative server and recursor since 2007 over some 12k+ domains. Bert and the PowerDNS community have always been very responsive to questions and assistance. Before we migrated we captured and replayed some traffic from our then production BIND name

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS in an ISP environment

2011-08-17 Thread Leen Besselink
On 08/16/2011 09:42 PM, Erik Weber wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Anthony Eden wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Posner, Sebastian >> wrote: >>> Erik Weber wrote: > Some other things to consider why running PDNS is better: >>> [...] Just shooting in with a feature tha

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS in an ISP environment

2011-08-17 Thread erkan yanar
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 01:29:18PM -0600, Michael Loftis wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Chris Russell > wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > Quick question – is anyone on the list using PDNS in an ISP environment, > > especially for auth services ? > > > There have definitely been a few

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS in an ISP environment

2011-08-16 Thread Erik Weber
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Anthony Eden wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Posner, Sebastian > wrote: >> >> Erik Weber wrote: >> > > Some other things to consider why running PDNS is better: >> [...] >> > Just shooting in with a feature that I just came to remember. >> > >> > 6) Fanc

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS in an ISP environment

2011-08-16 Thread Michael Loftis
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Chris Russell wrote: > Hi All, > > > > Quick question – is anyone on the list using PDNS in an ISP environment, > especially for auth services ? Up until a couple years ago I worked as Sr. SA/Ops Manager at Modwest, we used PowerDNS then, and they still do today.

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS in an ISP environment

2011-08-16 Thread Anthony Eden
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Posner, Sebastian wrote: > Erik Weber wrote: > > > Some other things to consider why running PDNS is better: > [...] > > Just shooting in with a feature that I just came to remember. > > > > 6) Fancy records. > > 3.0 doesn't support fancy records any more. > I, fo

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS in an ISP environment

2011-08-16 Thread Posner, Sebastian
Erik Weber wrote: > > Some other things to consider why running PDNS is better: [...] > Just shooting in with a feature that I just came to remember. > > 6) Fancy records. 3.0 doesn't support fancy records any more. http://doc.powerdns.com/fancy-records.html Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Sebastian

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS in an ISP environment

2011-08-16 Thread Erik Weber
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote: > Some other things to consider why running PDNS is better: > > 1) BIND is agonizingly slow when loading lots of zones.  Only recently have > they bothered to work on that so it doesn't take 6 hours to load a ton of > domains. > > 2) Auth and c

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS in an ISP environment

2011-08-16 Thread Brad Dameron (Ericsson)
> Hi Bert, > > > The best I can do is refer to this thread, which lists some data > points: http://mailman.powerdns.com/pipermail/pdns-users/2011- > May/007719.html > > Cheers, that's a good start :) > > > Measuring the 'company domain name' with fpdns is of limited utility > - the company doma

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS in an ISP environment

2011-08-16 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 8/16/11 1:50 AM, bert hubert wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 08:38:07AM +0100, Chris Russell wrote: > Hi All, > > Quick question - is anyone on the list using PDNS in an ISP environment, especially for auth services ? The best I can do is refer to this thread, which lists some data points:

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS in an ISP environment

2011-08-16 Thread Mario Caruso
On 08/16/2011 10:05 AM, Chris Russell wrote: Hi Bert, The best I can do is refer to this thread, which lists some data points: http://mailman.powerdns.com/pipermail/pdns-users/2011-May/007719.html [cut] Hello, i work in an isp and we're using pdns as auth server, we have about 4000 domains

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS in an ISP environment

2011-08-16 Thread Chris Russell
> fraction of the resources and a magniture more of the speed and > reliability. So far I don't really remember any real problems in any > of those. Cheers Peter, much appreciated. I've no real concerns over the ipv6 stability, we participated in wipv6day and I pushed some of our domains over to

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS in an ISP environment

2011-08-16 Thread Chris Russell
> We're an ISP utilizing PowerDNS, although small scale if you compare us to > others/other countries (~2000 domains). Near where we are, we're more a services company but we've grown into the ISP. Being able to host DNS helps us with we come to things like migrations. > The MySQL backend mak

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS in an ISP environment

2011-08-16 Thread Ben Brown
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 08:38:07AM +0100, Chris Russell wrote: > [root@ns1 ~]# fpdns -D plus.net > fingerprint (plus.net, 195.166.128.16): ISC BIND 9.2.3rc1 -- 9.4.0a4 > fingerprint (plus.net, 195.166.128.17): ISC BIND 9.2.3rc1 -- 9.4.0a4 We do intend to move to PowerDNS for our authoritative serv

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS in an ISP environment

2011-08-16 Thread Erik Weber
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Chris Russell wrote: > Hi Bert, > >> The best I can do is refer to this thread, which lists some data points: >> http://mailman.powerdns.com/pipermail/pdns-users/2011-May/007719.html > >  Cheers, that's a good start :) We're an ISP utilizing PowerDNS, although s

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS in an ISP environment

2011-08-16 Thread Chris Russell
Hi Bert, > The best I can do is refer to this thread, which lists some data points: > http://mailman.powerdns.com/pipermail/pdns-users/2011-May/007719.html Cheers, that's a good start :) > Measuring the 'company domain name' with fpdns is of limited utility - the > company domain name itself

Re: [Pdns-users] PowerDNS in an ISP environment

2011-08-16 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 08:38:07AM +0100, Chris Russell wrote: > Hi All, > > Quick question - is anyone on the list using PDNS in an ISP environment, > especially for auth services ? The best I can do is refer to this thread, which lists some data points: http://mailman.powerdns.com/pipermail/pd

[Pdns-users] PowerDNS in an ISP environment

2011-08-16 Thread Chris Russell
Hi All, Quick question - is anyone on the list using PDNS in an ISP environment, especially for auth services ? Have prepped PDNS to replace our Bind instances however management have raised concerns over moving away from the "industry standard", so have asked for more justification on the cha