Re: Suitability of LDAP as DNS backend - PowerDNS LDAP backend moving to unmaintained status

[Nick Milas <nick@eurobjects.com>]

On 28/4/2011 3:13 ÎÎ, Torsten Schlabach (Tascel eG) wrote:

> I never used PowerDNS, we always went with BIND. Fortunately the DLZ parts
> made it into the code and the version which has them built in made it into
> the standard Linux distros in the meanwhile.
>
> AFAIK there are no plans to drop LDAP backend support from BIND. So maybe
> you should just consider to switch there.
I just wanted to add that according many testimonies, like: 
https://lists.isc.org/mailman/htdig/bind-users/2011-February/082814.html, BIND9 
with LDAP over DLZ has a very low performance, making it unsuitable for 
production systems, which is not the case with PowerDNS.

So, it seems, PowerDNS with LDAP backend is the only truly viable 
solution in production, and PowerDNS is in risk of dropping maintenance 
of this backend!

Best regards,
Nick