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PowerDNS Setups
Hi guys,
I'm thinking of setting up PowerDNS to handle my DNS. Possibly a master / slave with a MySQL backend.
Any advice on this?
I've got 2x 768MB RAM VP's that I'll most likely use for this purpose. Any tips / tricks / etc I should know.
Lastly if you have any guides on setting this up in Ubuntu - then please let me know. Yes Yes I can find tons of old guides, but these are perhaps not current and someone here may know better etc.
Thanks,
Comments
Howtoforge have good guides on this:
http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-powerdns-with-mysql-backend-and-poweradmin-on-ubuntu-9.10
This guide shows you how to also setup poweradmin too, a front end for administering powerdns.
Are you planning master-to-master replication between your dns servers?
A while ago, I run this setup with 2x 512MB ram VPS, one from RAMNODE and another one from DigitalOcean. Everything worked great. Later, I simply decided to host my dns with DnsMadeEasy. :-)
I used several tutorials to get it working. Many tutorials had a very important step missing. Export the current db you want to duplicate from the master mysql db and then import it into your mysql slave db.
The actual mysql synch. configuration is in between "# begin replication setting" and "# end replication setting".
Both servers were running mysql 5.5.x.
'Master my.cnf
'Slave my.cnf