[Pdns-users] PowerDNS capabilities

[Odhiambo Washington]

On 17 March 2013 17:20, Peter van Dijk <peter.van.dijk at netherlabs.nl> wrote:

> Hello Ron,
>
> On Mar 16, 2013, at 19:56 , Ron Tsoref wrote:
>
> > I'm just checking out PowerDNS' capabilities and I'm not sure about
> something --
> >
> > Is it possible to serve DNS queries with PowerDNS this way? :
> >
> > PowerDNS checks for the requester's IP.  If its IP range is found -
> serve a certain record from a MySQL database.  If not - PowerDNS will serve
> a general, country-based answer from the MySQL database (simple Geo
> resolution).
>
> The BIND and SQL backends cannot do this. The Geobackend can do this
> natively (but it has some limitations). The Lua, Pipe and Remote backends
> can do this if you write a script. A Google search might give you a couple.
>
> Kind regards,
> --
> Peter van Dijk
> Netherlabs Computer Consulting BV - http://www.netherlabs.nl/
>
>

Just curious. Isn't the question closely similar to how "views" work in
BIND?

Does PowerDNS support "views", in some way?



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