[Pdns-users] 61 kbyte separate package of the most current powerdns recursor

[Kenneth Marshall]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 04:34:35PM +0200, bert hubert wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:33:18AM -0500, John Nelson wrote:
> > It sounds like it is, but would you consider this separate release safe to
> > put on a production server?  
> 
> First, if you downloaded pdns-recursor.tar.bz2 already, you need to do so
> again, it changed in important ways.
> 
> This tarball is currently being rolled out in production and there are a few
> (small) nits. However, the version that is currently online on
> http://svn.powerdns.com/pdns-recursor.tar.bz2 (which is a lot bigger, 102kb
> because of FreeBSD issues) is known to be the best pdns recursor released
> *ever*
> 
> So, if you currently run the pdns recursor, this version should be lots
> better than what you are running now.
> 
> If you are currently *happily* running something else, you are probably
> better off waiting a day or two.
> 
> If you are currently running something else but it has shown issues, then
> this tarball should be a good bet.
> 
> I'll do a bells-and-whistles release somewhere this week, with freshmeat and
> all.
> 
> I hope this clarifies the nature of this separate release enough.
> 
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Dear Mr. Hubert,

I tried out the latest pdns-recursor package to see if it had some of the
ADDITIONAL section information and AUTHORITY section that Bind provides.
We are having problems locally with Active Directory server records. Here
is a dig against bind-9.2.1 and pdns-recursor-2.9.2x:

PDNS-RECURSOR:

> /usr/site/bind/bin/dig _ldap._tcp.int.rice.edu srv @ns1.rice.edu

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> _ldap._tcp.int.rice.edu srv @ns1.rice.edu
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 19654
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;_ldap._tcp.int.rice.edu. IN SRV

;; ANSWER SECTION:
_ldap._tcp.int.rice.edu. 588 IN SRV 0 100 389 xx3.int.rice.edu.
_ldap._tcp.int.rice.edu. 588 IN SRV 0 100 389 xx4.int.rice.edu.
_ldap._tcp.int.rice.edu. 588 IN SRV 0 100 389 xx5.int.rice.edu.
_ldap._tcp.int.rice.edu. 588 IN SRV 0 100 389 xx6.int.rice.edu.

;; Query time: 5 msec
;; SERVER: 128.42.209.32#53(ns1.rice.edu)
;; WHEN: Tue Apr  4 16:07:52 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 316


BIND:

> /usr/site/bind/bin/dig _ldap.int.rice.edu srv @ns1.rice.edu

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> _ldap._tcp.int.rice.edu srv @ns1.rice.edu
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 38351
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;_ldap._tcp.int.rice.edu. IN SRV

;; ANSWER SECTION:
_ldap._tcp.int.rice.edu. 122 IN SRV 0 100 389 xx4.int.rice.edu.
_ldap._tcp.int.rice.edu. 122 IN SRV 0 100 389 xx5.int.rice.edu.
_ldap._tcp.int.rice.edu. 122 IN SRV 0 100 389 xx6.int.rice.edu.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
int.rice.edu.            3184    IN      NS      xx3.int.rice.edu.
int.rice.edu.            3184    IN      NS      xx4.int.rice.edu.
int.rice.edu.            3184    IN      NS      xx5.int.rice.edu.
int.rice.edu.            3184    IN      NS      xx6.int.rice.edu.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
xx4.int.rice.edu. 3535   IN      A       128.27.37.47
xx5.int.rice.edu. 3535   IN      A       128.27.57.67
xx6.int.rice.edu. 3535   IN      A       128.27.77.87
xx3.int.rice.edu. 661    IN      A       10.11.12.97

;; Query time: 2787 msec
;; SERVER: 128.42.209.32#53(ns1.rice.edu)
;; WHEN: Tue Apr  4 16:08:14 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 342


Please let me know if there are any other tests that I can
run for you.

Yours truly,
Ken Marshall