Re: Patches to dnsDataGen.pl with new writers

Thanks Rob.

I've created 1 more "new" writer -- contrib::writers::bindzone.

It is mostly identical to the original binddlz::writers::bindzone, except
that it changes the format of the zone file output slightly (primarily the
SOA record).

I found in my testing that the original bindzone writer was not creating the
SOA records in a way that was understood by BIND 9.5.0.  The new writer
works fine with BIND 9.5.0 (at least in my environment =)

I've rolled this update into my previous patchset here:
  http://joeym.net/bind-dlz-patches/bind-dlz-jmiller.patch
and the full tarball:
  http://joeym.net/bind-dlz-patches/DLZPerfTools-1.1-jmiller-contrib.tar.gz

joe

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Butler [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 3:11 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Bind-dlz-testers] Patches to dnsDataGen.pl with new writers

Awesome Joe.

DLZ is 'maintained' in that I continue to help on the mailing list and do
accept patches. Unfortunately, my day job keeps be super busy and I haven't
had any time to do anything on DLZ in a very long time.

I hope to at one point make a block of time available and roll up several
patches and bug fixes into a newer release.

Rob

----- Original Message ----
> From: Joe Miller <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 5:05:36 PM
> Subject: [Bind-dlz-testers] Patches to dnsDataGen.pl with new writers
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I hope I am posting to the right list.  If not, please let me know if
there
> is a better place to post.
> 
> Recently I found myself benchmarking a variety of authoritative DNS
servers,
> but quickly became frustrated at the amount of time I was spending on
> creating large amounts of 'random' DNS data in formats suitable for each.
> Luckily, I found the excellent dnsDataGen.pl tool, which helped
> tremendously.
> 
> I decided to create some new 'writers' modules that were particularly
> relevant to my benchmarking efforts and I thought I should share them with
> the world in case they are able to help someone else someday.
> 
> The patches can be found here:  http://www.joeym.net/
> 
> A summary of the changes:
> 
> - Slight modification to dnsDataGen.pl itself so that it always creates
the
> SOA record first when creating a new zone.  This was helpful for the
writers
> I created because many of them build a set of commands to feed into
various
> SQL DB's which require that the zone exists before records can be added to
> it.
> 
> - The following new 'writers' (I created a new directory called
> "contrib/writers" to store these, as recommend on the bind-dlz website):
>   -- contrib::writers::mydns::file
>   -- contrib::writers::powerdns::xdb
>   -- contrib::writers::powerdns::sqlite3
>   -- contrib::writers::powerdns::gmysql
>   -- contrib::writers::windowsdns::file
> 
> These should each be fairly self-explanatory for the most part if you're
> familiar with MyDNS, PowerDNS, and Windows DNS.  Mostly they just create
SQL
> files that can be directly imported into mysql (ie: cat file |mysql
dbname).
> The Windows DNS writer creates a batch file that calls "dnscmd" to create
> records in Active Directory.  I've only tested this writer with
> AD-integrated zones, but it may work for other zone types.
> 
> The PowerDNS XDB writer's output is intended to be fed into the 'xdb-fill'
> tool that comes with PowerDNS.
> 
> Everything is wrapped up in 1 patch file, available at
> http://www.joeym.net/bind-dlz-patches/bind-dlz-jmiller.patch
> 
> I've only tested each of these for basic functionality, so I cannot
> guarantee they'll work with all versions or in all scenarios, but so far
> they have been a big time-saver for the various benchmarking I've been
> doing.
> 
> I'm not sure if maintenance is still being done on BIND-DLZ,
dnsDataGen.pl,
> or the DLZPerfTools.  If so, and these patches are useful, feel free to
> include them in a future release.  I will attempt to maintain them on my
own
> webserver as long as possible.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe
> 
> 
> 
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