Re: RES: Failover-capable DNS server?

On Nov 22, 2011 1:34 AM, "Eduardo Schoedler" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Yes, PowerDNS and MaraDNS are good.
>

I like MaraDNS. It's light, fast, and secure. But I have 2 problems with it:

1. It's static. If I need to change a zone definition I must restart the
service. I know, that'll take less than a couple of seconds, but I don't
like it. (Yeah, I'm anal like that :-P )

2. I couldn't really figure out Deadwood. AFAIK Gentoo has no Deadwood
package, and I need Deadwood to solve "dangling CNAME" problems [1].

[1] http://www.maradns.org/tutorial/dangling.html

> You can write some scripts with heartbeatd to change the responde of your
dns... and change the TTL to 5 minutes or less.
>

Yes. With PowerDNS, I think I will run a nohup-ed script that 'wakes up'
every a couple of minutes, do some ping tests, and update pdns' MySQL
database.

Rgds,