[Pdns-users] Verify PowerDNS answers?

[Kenneth Marshall]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 03:19:41PM -0700, Augie Schwer wrote:
> Are there any existing tools to verify that PowerDNS is producing the
> correct answers for a given set of queries?
> 
> 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 could obviously write something up that takes a set of queries and
> correct answers and then queries PowerDNS to verify its answers, but
> if there was already something written that would run through a set of
> tests quickly and effectively it would be great; any suggestions
> welcome.
> 
> 
Have you taken a look at the dnsreplay tool that is included in
the PowerDNS source? It will replay a network trace against a
specified nameserver and give some statistics.

Ken