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| Posted by blackid, 11-13-2010, 06:13 AM |
| Okay,
I have no clue which forum to post this is, but this seemed the most apt. I am strating a DNS server and I have a lil over 100K domains whose DNS entries i want put. What software do you suggest can handle this, and what server config would be needed?
Thanks
blackid
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| Posted by david510, 11-13-2010, 08:11 AM |
| You can look at the bind. With only bind, there will not be any web interface. However you can manage domains like, adding/deleting/editing with the help of small scripts.
Bind
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| Posted by blackid, 11-13-2010, 08:27 AM |
| I have tried bind, but my last installation won't start at 30K domains... which is pretty funny.. its a 1.5 GB RAM VPS... you think i need more? if anyone could help me set it up, i'd be more than happy to pay your fees
Thanks
blackid
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| Posted by EZ-CONCEPT, 11-13-2010, 08:42 AM |
| Bind -> Plenty of security issues / Plenty of Web GUI's
PowerDNS -> Able to read BIND configuration's, less security issues. / Plenty of Web GUI.
DJBDNS -> Most likely un-updated and not recommanded.
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| Posted by blackid, 11-13-2010, 09:03 AM |
| So you reckon powerdns is good? My main concern is really scalability rather than anything else. I can't afford my server to go down. I lose 500 bucks every day my server is down ..
Thanks
blackid
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| Posted by EZ-CONCEPT, 11-13-2010, 09:09 AM |
| PowerDNS rocks. Still fighting with it though
I am trying to combining my CP&DA&Web nodes to make a huge DNS cluster.
Anyway as of scalability... well what I can say it rocks at the moment. It's even used by Wikimedia [SOURCE] so the stability should be excellent.
And plenty of PDNS GUI is available everywhere
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| Posted by Trix, 11-13-2010, 04:35 PM |
| I've had good luck with gdnsd.
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| Posted by DJMizt73, 11-14-2010, 03:07 AM |
| really and why is that you dont recommend it? Please enlighten us
The only DNS software that the author personally guarantees $1000 of his own money to anyone who can find a security flaw (which in its history only had 1 distinct exploit found).
Its also very fast and not resource hungry, has cool features like GeoIP based authoritative response, etc. etc.
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| Posted by EZ-CONCEPT, 11-14-2010, 03:39 AM |
| Yes it was great when I went with it 5 years ago. 3 years later I switched to PowerDNS. Even though DJBDNS aims to make a DNS server with "Continuous DNS service without continual software upgrades", I don't really expect I have to install plenty of patches after new installs.
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| Posted by DJMizt73, 11-14-2010, 06:29 PM |
| so in other words, there's really no issue with DJBDNS except the fact that you moved to PowerDNS and now expects to patch once in a while after the new install. Awesome. I hope next time you backup your facts before you start giving negative recommendations on certain softwares.
To the OP: consider researching tiny-dns (the auth part of djbdns); many people shy away from it because 'it looks complicated' to setup ..but really its not that complicated.
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| Posted by EZ-CONCEPT, 11-15-2010, 12:46 AM |
| Many IMPORTANT function is missing in DJBDNS.
For example IPv6 support.
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| Posted by harget, 11-15-2010, 12:49 AM |
| MyDNS is one of the best I seen.
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| Posted by DJMizt73, 11-17-2010, 03:05 AM |
| try reading up on this page www.tinydns.org And let me know what 'IMPORTANT' function you are missing
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| Posted by hkrental, 11-24-2010, 07:15 AM |
| I think a normal name service will help
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