[Pdns-dev] Compiling a custom backend

[Erik Muttersbach]

Yes I plan to do so. I will inform you when I get a version worth looking
at.

Erik

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter van Dijk [mailto:peter.van.dijk at netherlabs.nl] 
Sent: Dienstag, 31. Januar 2012 22:19
To: Erik Muttersbach
Subject: Re: [Pdns-dev] Compiling a custom backend

Good to hear! I had been pondering a HTTP-based backend for a while. Will
you be open sourcing your work?

Cheers, Peter

On Jan 31, 2012, at 22:18 , Erik Muttersbach wrote:

> Thanks a lot for the link! Actually I was just searching for such a 
> change set some minutes ago.
> 
> I forgot the line
> 
> static TinyDNSLoader tinydnsloader;
> 
> which does the trick :)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Erik
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pdns-dev-bounces at mailman.powerdns.com
> [mailto:pdns-dev-bounces at mailman.powerdns.com] On Behalf Of Peter van 
> Dijk
> Sent: Dienstag, 31. Januar 2012 22:06
> To: pdns-dev at mailman.powerdns.com
> Subject: Re: [Pdns-dev] Compiling a custom backend
> 
> Hello Erik,
> 
> On Jan 31, 2012, at 19:34 , erik at muttersbach.net wrote:
> 
>> I would like to develop a custom backend that uses a HTTP rest 
>> service for
> resolving requests. So far I have made the following customizations in 
> the source code, checked out from SVN:
>> 
>> 1. In configure.ac I changed the line modules="gmysql geo" to
> modules="gmysql geo rest"
>> 2. I created a new folder under modules called restbackend with two 
>> source
> files: restbackend.cc (http://pastebin.com/CmFhVJP4) and 
> restbackend.hh
> (http://pastebin.com/G1aDGRHt) and empty file OBJECTLIBS a file 
> OBJECTFILES with the content "restbackend.o".
>> 
>> Running ./bootstrap, ./configure and then make works well. 
>> Unfortunately
> the command ./pdns/pdns_server --launch=rest will fail with the 
> following
> message:
>> 
>> Whats wrong or missing here?
> 
> Just some quick notes from my limited experiences in working on the
> tinydnsbackend:
> - unless you 'make install', you will have to do something like 
> --load-modules=./modules/tinydnsbackend/.libs/libtinydnsbackend.so in 
> addition to the --launch
> - i believe
> https://github.com/Habbie/powerdns/commit/264fa3874048f57e7296f9815712
> 16c25b
> 2af174 contains all the changes i had to make to get the backend to 
> compile and load
> 
> I hope this helps; do not hesitate to ask more questions!
> 
> Kind regards,
> Peter van Dijk
> 
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