Doubts about BIND

[Josh Miller]

Josh Miller wrote:
> Christoph Weber-Fahr wrote:
>> How serious is bind-dlz these days?
>>
>> I mean - that code hasn't been touched for half a decade now.
>> Does it even compile with current bind versions?
> 
> bind-dlz is very useful for dynamic provisioning of customer sites by 
> inserting data into a database table.  I have a case where I support an 
> application with hundreds of domains which all use the same DNS RR as 
> they are hosted on the same set of servers (web, mail, ftp, etc..). This 
> allows me to create a table with all of the DNS values and then create a 
> view which combines the previous table with another table that has a 
> simple list of all domains hosted.  This has worked out very well for 
> this particular case.
> 
> A big thanks to the bind-dlz developers for this great piece of code.
> 

(bind-9.6.0-P1, btw.)