[Pdns-users] IMPORTANT: please help us test the uncommon backends!

[Vincent Hoffman]

Just to follow up on this, (I originally replied directly without
thinking) we have recently put the MyDNS backend into production, other
than needing the patch in
http://wiki.powerdns.com/trac/ticket/439 its working pretty well. We
should be moving ns0 and ns1 over to it soon.
# service pdns-server dump
corrupt-packets=1569,deferred-cache-inserts=199533,deferred-cache-lookup=92109,latency=751,packetcache-hit=1644460,packetcache-miss=3010439,packetcache-size=342226,qsize-q=1,query-cache-hit=4508622,query-cache-miss=10125220,recursing-answers=0,recursing-questions=0,servfail-packets=184,tcp-answers=633,tcp-queries=653,timedout-packets=11729,udp-answers=4663456,udp-queries=4675674,udp4-answers=4663456,udp4-queries=4675186,udp6-answers=0,udp6-queries=0,

Vince


On 10/10/2012 18:26, Cody wrote:
> I'm not sure how useful this is as I doubt there is much development
> on this backend but we use the MyDNS backend for millions of queries a
> day in production.
>
> If you need more information / any feedback let me know off-list.
>
> -Cody Robertson
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Peter van Dijk
> <peter.van.dijk at netherlabs.nl <mailto:peter.van.dijk at netherlabs.nl>>
> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     occasionally, a change in PowerDNS breaks one or more backends.
>     Often, this goes unnoticed until a user complains, months later,
>     often even after a full release of PowerDNS.
>
>     Right now, we test a bunch of backends after every commit:
>     - bind
>     - gmysql
>     - gsqlite3
>     - gpgsql
>     - tinydns
>     - opendbx
>
>     Breakage in any other backend will go unnoticed by our tests
>     (although there are plenty of pipe users who frequently update
>     from SVN).
>
>     If you are using any backend not in this list, please talk to me
>     about adding it to our testing setup. We love supporting all these
>     backends but manual testing is not an option for us. I'm not
>     asking for you to submit full testing suites to us - for many
>     backends, I simply do not have the time to find out how to even
>     get them set up.
>
>     Be aware that if we find broken backends that have been broken for
>     at least one release without anyone complaining, we WILL remove them.
>
>     Please respond :)
>
>     Kind regards,
>     --
>     Peter van Dijk
>     Netherlabs Computer Consulting BV - http://www.netherlabs.nl/
>
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