Running A MySQL-Based DNS Server: MyDNS

[Vin DSL]

Interesting article!

In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure MyDNS, a DNS server that uses a MySQL database as backend instead of configuration files like, for example, Bind or djbdns. This has the advantage that you can easily use web-based frontends to administrate your DNS records. You could even write your own frontend, e.g. using PHP, to interact with the MyDNS database. MyDNS simply reads the records from the database, and it does not have to be restarted/reloaded when DNS records change or zones are created/edited/deleted! This is a major advantage.

I will also show how to set up a secondary DNS server, but I will not use normal zone transfers to get the records from the primary to the secondary DNS server; instead, I will use MySQL database replication. I will simply replicate the data from the primary to the secondary server.

There are multiple web frontends to MyDNS. Of course, you can use phpMyAdmin for the MyDNS administration, or you can use the web frontend that comes with MyDNS (which is not for beginners because it lacks the field descriptions), or you can use MyDNSConfig, a tool written by myself. I will show how to install each of them.

Full Story: http://www.howtoforge.com/mydns_name_server

[Julian Muñoz]

Very interesting. Now I can develop my own service like easyDNS

[Awalsh]

Sounds interesting..... i currently use bind (Cpanel/Whm default so yeh laugh because im lazy ). Im considering trying this but i dont want to break anything because from past experiences DNS problems are #1 on my list of painful problems.

Call me a DNS newb (because i am) but anyone know if this can be run alongside BIND? Without breaking bind (eg run this as a test, then if im happy get rid of BIND)

[jason]

You can probably do it if you assign a different IP address than you are using for BIND. Se the server so that BIND responds to requests on (for example) 123.45.67 and MyDNS responds to requests on 123.45.78. The you can set systems you want to use for testing to do their DNS lookups with the 123.45.78 server and see how it works.

--Jason

[Julian Muñoz]

I'm not switching to MyDNS because I'm happy with zone files and rndc commands

[jmkogut]

YEAH! This is just what I've been wanting, some sort of database-driven DNS server

[AlexKall]

Sounds interesting, will try it right away

That was just way to much, will do it later heh