As we are nearing the version 3 release, now is a good time to determine the goals for this major release and, equally important, non-goals.

After 3.0 I expect there will be some replacements of subsystems that aren't up to par, before heading on to 3.1 in which we'll be doing new and cool things.

Goals:

• Be a better Bind than Bind
  This means that PowerDNS should, for many Bind configurations, be a near drop-in replacement, and have instant advantages. PowerDNS will only read zone information from named.conf, to configure PowerDNS, you should continue to use pdns.conf.
  • This also means removing the bindbackend and replacing it with the current bind2backend. As it is, the bindbackend has problems in some configurations.
• Build out of the box on Windows again
• Fix the HINFO bug
• PostgreSQL database disruptions should verifiably no longer upset PowerDNS

Non-goals, but perhaps for 3.1 timeframe:

• The current DNSPacket parser is a dirty hack and needs to be re-done. It does work however.
• The much vaunted DNS provisioning protocol
• DNS Updates
• 'forwarder' support