[freeside-users] exporting to PowerDNS database

[Vlad Sedov]

On 1/18/06, Ivan Kohler <ivan at 420.am> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:39:24AM -0600, Vlad Sedov wrote:
> > hello -
> >
> > has anyone experimented with exporting DNS records from freeside to a
> > database-driven DNS server, such as powedns?....
>
> I haven't had any customer interest along these lines, but it wouldn't
> be very difficult.  I'd certainly welcome contributions in this area.
> You could write a real-time export like the other SQL exports, not batch
> like the BIND one.  A module would need to be added in
> FS/FS/part_export/ (an example may be found in eg/export_template.pm).
>
> or, how about smoothing out interaction with BIND?.... The BIND export
> works
> > fairly well, but the server itself has to be told to reload db's after
> the
> > export.
>
> Hmm, no, all the BIND exports I've setup call "ndc reload" or "rndc
> reload" to tell the server to reload the database.  No separate export
> or cron job is necessary.
>
> > Do you guys just CRON an occasional SIGHUP to the named process, or
> > do you make a second export that does just that?
>
> --
> _ivan
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duuuh I just saw that in the export module :-) sorry....

BIND module itself can be made realtime too, no? Create zone file, add to
named.conf and rndc reload all in one shot..?
good for small servers, not so good for really large BIND installs with
hundreds of zones...

-vlad
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