[Pdns-users] PowerDNS releases?

Augie Schwer augie.schwer at gmail.com
Sun Feb 25 15:10:00 UTC 2007


Damn, I always forget to hit "Reply All".

On 2/25/07, Augie Schwer <augie.schwer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/21/07, Arjan Schrijver <arjan at anymore.nl> wrote:
> > This is probably a very stupid question, so flame me if you like.
> > Is PowerDNS still being developed? The last release has been almost a
> > year ago.
> > And more important, is it safe to use in production? A piece of software
> > that hasn't
> > been bugfixed this long is bound to have security issues.
>
> I would say it depends on what you are doing; have a look at the
> outstanding bugs and see if there are any show stoppers in there:
>
> http://wiki.powerdns.com/cgi-bin/trac.fcgi/report/1
>
> If you aren't doing anything too fancy, then you shouldn't have any
> problems; if you're an ISP, then you might run into some nasty bugs.
> The best thing to do is to test it first; load up your existing zones,
> capture traffic off of your current production boxes and replay it at
> PowerDNS, then compare answers.
>
>
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