[Pdns-users] Re: Verify PowerDNS answers?

[Augie Schwer]

On 10/6/06, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 03:31:20AM +0200,
>  Alex van den Bogaerdt <alex at ergens.op.het.net> wrote
>  a message of 20 lines which said:
> > > We would like to migrate our existing BIND setup to PowerDNS, but
> > > I first need to prove that PowerDNS will return the same answers
> > > that BIND does for a given set of zones.
> > I don't know about such a tool, but I do know that pdns does not
> > behave in the same way as bind.
> And the problem with Augie Schwer's idea is that it is perfectly legal
> to *not* behave exactly like BIND, since the DNS standard leaves many
> options open. BIND 9 does not behave like BIND 8, by far (many oif our
> registrars' scripts broke when we moved our servers to BIND 9).

I am more concerned with *how* PowerDNS will respond differently from
BIND, so we have an idea of what to expect; also it would be nice to
verify that PowerDNS will answer simple A record or PTR record
requests correctly.


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