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File README.opendbx of Package pdns3
grabbed from http://wiki.linuxnetworks.de/index.php/PowerDNS_OpenDBX_Backend and linked pages ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PowerDNS OpenDBX Backend - Installation From Wiki Contents • 1 Installation 1.1 Compilation 1.2 Configuration options 1.3 Backend specific configuration ☆ 1.3.1 MySQL ☆ 1.3.2 PostgreSQL ☆ 1.3.3 SQLite and SQLite3 ☆ 1.3.4 MS SQL Server ☆ 1.3.5 Sybase ASE 1.4 Database setup 1.5 Migration Installation Compilation Before performing the steps to compile the PowerDNS server and the OpenDBX backend you have to install the OpenDBX library, the OpenDBX backend you want to use and its development package, which includes the necessary header. The OpenDBX package can be downloaded from Linuxnetworks.de. Apply these steps to the source pdns-x.xx.tar.gz file, if you don't want to use a precompiled package: * Extract the pdns tar file * Change into the newly created pdns directory * Extract the opendbxbackend tar file * Run "cat <patch> | patch -p1" (if available) * Type ./configure --help for the available options * For dynamic modules: ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-modules="" --with-dynmodules="opendbx" --enable-recursor * For a static module: ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-modules="opendbx" --with-dynmodules="" --enable-recursor * make && make install Configuration options There are a few options through the OpenDBX backend can be configured for your environment. Add them to the pdns.conf file located in /etc/powerdns or /usr/ local/etc/ (depends on your configuration while compiling): opendbx-backend (default "mysql") Name of the backend used to connect to the database server. Currently mysql, pgsql, sqlite, sqlite3 and sybase are available. opendbx-host-read (default "127.0.0.1") One or more host names or IP addresses of the database servers. These hosts will be used for retrieving the records via SELECT queries. opendbx-host-write (default "127.0.0.1") Same as opendbx-host-read, except for INSERT/UPDATE statements (mostly used by zonetransfers). opendbx-port (default "") TCP/IP port number where the database server is listening to. Most databases will use their default port if you leave this empty. opendbx-database (default "powerdns") The database name where all domain and record entries are stored. opendbx-username (default "powerdns") Name of the user send to the DBMS for authentication. opendbx-password (default "") Clear text password for authentication in combination with the username. opendbx-host (deprecated, default "127.0.0.1") Host name or IP address of the database server. This parameter is deprecated in favor of opendbx-host-read and opendbx-host-write. Backend specific configuration MySQL Supported without changes since OpenDBX 1.0.0 PostgreSQL Supported without changes since OpenDBX 1.0.0 SQLite and SQLite3 Supported without changes since OpenDBX 1.0.0 but requires to set opendbx-host to the path of the SQLite file (including the trailing slash or backslash, depending on your operating system) and opendbx-database to the name of the file, e.g. opendbx-host-read = /path/to/file/ opendbx-host-write = /path/to/file/ opendbx-database = powerdns.sqlite MS SQL Server Supported by PowerDNS 2.9.20 (with latest patch) and OpenDBX 1.1.4 by using the FreeTDS library. It uses a different scheme for host configuration (requires the name of the host section in the configuration file of the dblib client library) and doesn't support the default statement for starting transactions. Please add the following lines to your pdns.conf: opendbx-host-read = MSSQL2k opendbx-host-write = MSSQL2k opendbx-sql-transactbegin = BEGIN TRANSACTION Sybase ASE Supported by PowerDNS 2.9.20 (with latest patch) and OpenDBX 1.1.5 by using the native Sybase ctlib or the FreeTDS library. It uses a different scheme for host configuration (requires the name of the host section in the configuration file of the ctlib client library) and doesn't support the default statement for starting transactions. Please add the following lines to your pdns.conf: opendbx-host-read = SYBASE opendbx-host-write = SYBASE opendbx-sql-transactbegin = BEGIN TRANSACTION Database setup You need one of the DBMS supported by the OpenDBX library for storing your records and domain infomation. Please have a look at the documentation of your DBMS for the task of creating a database and an user. After that you're almost done. Use the appropriate table definition below to create the tables in the new database after which you can populate your database with dns information with e.g. zone2sql. • MySQL • PostgreSQL • SQLite • Sybase Migration To convert an existing gMySQL Database to an OpenDBX MySQL database, an additional status column is required since patch 2.9.20-3: ALTER TABLE domains ADD ( status CHAR(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'A' ) Adding a foreign key constraint from records.domain_id to domains.id is a good idea too: ALTER TABLE records ADD CONSTRAINT fk_records_domainid FOREIGN KEY (domain_id) REFERENCES domains (id) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE You should also recreate your indices for optimal performance. Please have a look in the appropriate file listed in the section above. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PowerDNS OpenDBX Backend - Optimization From Wiki Contents • 1 Optimization 1.1 Use NULL for prio and ttl fields Optimization Use NULL for prio and ttl fields Each DNS entry in the record table has its own values for time-to-live (TTL) and priority. You can speed up processing of each query in the OpenDBX backend if you set both values in your records table to NULL by default and only set them to an appropriate value if you really need them. There are two record types where you can't use NULL in the prio fields: MX and SRV record types. Most of the time you need different values than 0 (which NULL is converted to in the OpenDBX backend) in those records but everywhere else NULL is suggested. The same applies to the TTL field in each record. There are only a few cases where you might wish to use different values than the default one you can set by the default-ttl=... config option in the pdns.conf file. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PowerDNS OpenDBX Backend - Comparison From Wiki Contents • 1 Comparison 1.1 Environment 1.2 Settings 1.3 Test description 1.4 Results 1.5 Conclusion 1.6 Optimizations Comparison Environment The test environment consisted of two different machines both running Debian 3.1 (Sarge) with the latest official patches applied. The following packages were used: PowerDNS Version 2.9.18-svn (rev 474, 2005-09-03) PowerDNS OpenDBX Backend Version from 2005-10-15 (source) OpenDBX Version 0.9.5 (more) MySQL Version 4.1.11a, including libmysqlclient14 PostgreSQL Version 7.4.7 SQLite3 Version 3.2.1 One hosted the PowerDNS server while the other was responsible for running the test suite (queryperf is included in the BIND sources): PowerDNS + database server VIA C3 533MHz, 256MB RAM Benchmark client Pentium M 1.5GHz, 512MB RAM Both machines were connected by a 100MBit network and they were the only ones attached to the hub. Settings All test were done with default settings for each database - no further optimizations were applied except if stated otherwise. To get raw database and backend performance, caching in PowerDNS was switched of generally. Otherwise we would get much higher but false results due to packet caching done by PowerDNS. The "slave-cycle-interval" parameter was set to a value high enough so checking for unfresh slaves had no negative influence: • cache-ttl=0 • negquery-cache-ttl=0 • query-cache-ttl=0 • recursive-cache-ttl=0 • master=yes • slave-cycle-interval=300 Test description The test was based on the records in the example.com zone available in the regression-tests directory of PowerDNS. The zone file was converted by zone2sql (part of the PowerDNS distribution) to a set of SQL queries inserted into the database tables created by specific "create table" statements for each DBMS (available along with the OpenDBX backend sources). Lookup speed This was tested by running queryperf with a query set of 10000 A records (host-0.example.com to host-9999.example.com) three times in a row. Afterwards these results were averaged to be a good rule of thumb for real live environments (cache hit rate of 60 to 70 percent). AXFR speed Zone transfer measurement was done by running "host -l example.com <serverip> 1>/dev/null" 100 times in a loop while timing the test. Possible variation of the results due to the operating system should be minimal. Results Values for queryperf results are the averaged number of queries per second determined by queryperf. Backend gmysql OpenDBX OpenDBX OpenDBX mysql pgsql sqlite3 1. queryperf 446 454 270 839 2. queryperf 1033 1118 272 848 3. queryperf 1033 1118 272 844 Lookup (avg) 837 897 271 844 AXFR (sec) 198 160 271 224 Conclusion • The OpenDBX backend outperforms the native MySQL backend by ca. 7 percent in lookups • OpenDBX backend zone transfers are even 20 percent faster than gmysql backend • A PostgreSQL server needs optimized settings before it can perform well • SQLite is a good alternative for systems without dedicated server Optimizations I would like to know which settings are needed to get comparable performance figures for PostgreSQL. If you have any suggestions please add them to the Talk page.
