PowerDNS OpenDBX Backend/Introduction
Introduction
Rationale
This HOWTO documents the steps necessary to build and use the OpenDBX backend I've written for PowerDNS, an extremely versatile name server. This backend enables PowerDNS to retrieve DNS information from all databases supported by the OpenDBX library.
Download
The OpenDBX backend is included in the PowerDNS source tree. You can get the latest packages of the PowerDNS OpenDBX backend at Linuxnetworks.de and you will also need the OpenDBX library also available at Linuxnetworks.de
Credits
I would like to thank Bert Hubert for his courage to write a clean implementation of the DNS protocol, which is a real nightmare for every good programmer. You will understand what I mean, if you read the specs yourself
As a result PowerDNS is an extremely versatile DNS server consisting of very good source code which is easy to understand and to extend. Please support him by contributing code or bug reports or spread the word of PowerDNS ;-)
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