new Wikified FAQ

Static 'Compiling and Using' FAQ

TODO List

Developers

PowerDNSSEC

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This is the PowerDNS Community Page

For information about PowerDNSSEC, please see this wiki page and  http://www.powerdnssec.org/ !

Welcome! 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.

wiki.powerdns.com and svn.powerdns.com are made possible by XS4ALL!

PowerDNS has five kinds of 'outlets':

• the pretty .com website (where you can buy commercial support etc)
  • Download page
•  Static documentation
  •  Static generic getting help FAQ
  •  Static 'Compiling and Using' FAQ
  •  Latest release notes
• the mailing lists:
  • pdns-users - general discussions on compiling, using and deploying PowerDNS.  Subscribe,  Archive,  Search
  • pdns-dev - developer talk, intended for programmers or people requesting features  Subscribe,  Archive
  • pdns-announce - announcements of new versions, security problems etc  Subscribe,  Archive
• IRC
  • We hang out in #powerdns on OFTC ( irc.oftc.net). Our former home is on IRCNet (irc.xs4all.nl, irc.open-ircnet.net, or see  here) and some of us can still be found there.
• This Wiki
  • Many of the pages here can be edited

Furthermore, bert hubert has  a blog that mentions PowerDNS a lot.

If you are happy with PowerDNS, but don't need commercial support, feel free to donate!

in Euros

in USD.

Please be aware that donating may or may not help in getting your bug fixed earlier. There are no guarantees!

Access to the source, applying patches

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 check out only the latest version, do:

$ svn co svn://svn.powerdns.com/pdns/trunk/pdns pdns
A  pdns/debian
A  pdns/debian/control
A  pdns/debian/pdns.postinst
...

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 here.

Building a functioning PowerDNS from the repository, or applying patches, is a bit more work, read all about it in the HACKING section.

Wiki pages

• New new Wikified FAQ

External links

•  Page of Norbert Sendetzky, the author of PowerDNS support in LDAP, and  the documentation wiki
•  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
•  Christof Meerwald has PowerDNS packages for Debian Woody which you can try if our static package has problems. Do note that if you compile PowerDNS on Woody, you might have some problems, especially on SMP systems
•  The PowerDNS FreeBSD ports listing
•  List of DNS record types (Wikipedia)
•  List of DNS parameters (IANA)

Tasks we need help with

• Reviving OS X support
• Solaris packages
• Writing regression tests, see here

Or read/edit the TODO list.