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PowerDNS is an advanced high performance authoritative nameserver with a host of backends. Besides plain BIND configuration files, PDNS reads information from MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and many other databases. Backends can easily be written in any language, and a sample Perl backend is provided. This page is intended as an interactive center for the PowerDNS community, users and developers.


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}}} PowerDNS has five kinds of 'outlets': * [http://www.powerdns.com the pretty .com website] (where you can buy commercial support etc) * [http://www.powerdns.com/en/downloads.aspx Download page] * [http://doc.powerdns.com Static documentation] * [http://doc.powerdns.com/faq.html Static generic getting help FAQ] * [http://doc.powerdns.com/pdns-users-faq.html Static 'Compiling and Using' FAQ] * [http://doc.powerdns.com/changelog.html Latest release notes] * [wiki:MailingLists the mailing lists]: * pdns-users - general discussions on compiling, using and deploying PowerDNS. [http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users Subscribe], [http://mailman.powerdns.com/pipermail/pdns-users/ Archive], [http://www.nabble.com/PowerDNS-f22536.html Search] * pdns-dev - developer talk, intended for programmers or people requesting features [http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-dev Subscribe], [http://mailman.powerdns.com/pipermail/pdns-dev/ Archive] * pdns-announce - announcements of new versions, security problems etc [http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-announce Subscribe], [http://mailman.powerdns.com/pipermail/pdns-announce/ Archive] * IRC * We hang out in #powerdns on OFTC ([http://www.oftc.net/ irc.oftc.net]). Our former home is on IRCNet (irc.xs4all.nl, irc.open-ircnet.net, or see [http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/networks/servers/ircnet.html here]) and some of us can still be found there. * This Wiki * Many of the pages here can be edited Furthermore: * bert hubert has [http://blog.netherlabs.nl a blog] that mentions PowerDNS a lot. * Find us on Twitter: [http://twitter.com/PowerDNS @PowerDNS], [http://twitter.com/Habbie @Habbie], [http://twitter.com/PowerDNScommits @PowerDNScommits], [http://twitter.com/PowerDNS_Bert @PowerDNS_Bert] * And on Facebook: [http://www.facebook.com/PowerDNS] * And on Google Plus: [https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/109461275309357168312] * And on Linkedin: [http://www.linkedin.com/groups/PowerDNS-2083262?home=&gid=2083262&trk=anet_ug_hm] = Getting PowerDNS packages = * [http://www.powerdns.com/content/downloads.html Our official downloads]: source tarballs and static packages for the latest releases. * [http://cmeerw.org/debian/ Ubuntu Lucid]: Christof Meerwald has PowerDNS packages for Ubuntu Lucid. * [http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=pdns-server&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all pdns-server] and [http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=pdns-recursor&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all pdns-recursor] packages in Ubuntu. * [http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=pdns-server&searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all§ion=all pdns-server] and [http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=pdns-recursor&searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all§ion=all pdns-recursor] packages in Debian. * [http://software.opensuse.org/package/pdns pdns] and [http://software.opensuse.org/package/pdns-recursor pdns-recursor] packages in OpenSUSE. For packages of the latest version check the [http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/dns/ server:dns repository]. * [http://www.freshports.org/dns/powerdns/ The PowerDNS FreeBSD ports listing] = Access to the source, applying patches = [https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns GitHub is the new place to be!] ~~ You can download the source from the page mentioned above. To get really involved, you can get access to the source repository using Subversion. The repository is available on svn://svn.powerdns.com/pdns. To submit patches, checkout the trunk, do your editing, and send the output of '''svn diff''' to the pdns-dev list. The source can also be browsed online [source:trunk/ here]. ~~ Building a functioning PowerDNS from the repository, or applying patches, is a bit more work, read all about it [wiki:HACKING in the HACKING section]. You may also like our [https://github.com/Habbie/powerdns/branches GitHub bridge]. = Wiki pages = * New [wiki:PowerDNSFaq new Wikified FAQ] = External links = * [http://www.linuxnetworks.de/pdnsldap/ Page of Norbert Sendetzky, the author of PowerDNS support in LDAP], and [http://wiki.linuxnetworks.de/index.php/PowerDNS_ldapbackend the documentation wiki] * [http://wiki.blitzed.org/DNS_balancing Page explaining Mark Bergsma's DNS loadbalancing support, as used by the WikiPedia] * http://ds9a.nl, http://www.netherlabs.nl pages by the main author of PowerDNS * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DNS_record_types List of DNS record types (Wikipedia)] * [http://www.iana.org/assignments/dns-parameters List of DNS parameters (IANA)] = Tasks we need help with = * Reviving OS X support * Solaris packages * Testing backends * Writing regression tests, see [wiki:WritingRegressionTests here] * Collecting and documenting the plethora of [wiki:WebFrontends web frontends] * Managing [report:1 our tickets]: * verifying that bugs reported for old versions still apply to new versions * reproducing unclear tickets to clarify them * writing patches! Or read/edit the [wiki:TodoList TODO list].