MySQL BIND SDB Driver
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Introduction
The MySQL BIND SDB driver provides a
MySQL database
backend
for the
BIND 9
Domain Name Server (DNS).
Normally, BIND is configured
with complex configuration files that become difficult to maintain with large domains and are
very error prone.
BIND must also be restarted whenever changes are made to its configuration
files.
The MySQL BIND SDB driver gets around these limitations by allowing the DNS server to read the
domain information directly from a MySQL database.
Any changes to the zones in the database
are immediately seen by BIND making reloads unnecessary.
The code for this driver was derived from the example PostgreSql driver contained in the
BIND distribution.
It is similar in code and function to the unmaintained
BIND-MySQL
project and the database format is compatible since it appears to also have been derived from
the PostgreSQL example driver.
Potential Uses
The project was started so that we could automatically create sub-domains for user's homepages
on account creation.
This was done by adding the SQL to add the domain to the
PHP
account creation script.
It is also a simple way to provide a web administration interface to BIND using
A client and server could also be written to
add and remove DNS entries as a computer comes online or goes offline.
This would allow people with dynamic IPs (like
dialup and many DSL users) to run a web or ftp server from their home computer.
I would like to expand this project to include at least example code for some of the above applications.
Any contributions or
suggestions would be appreciated.
License
The MySQL BIND SDB driver is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
Requirements
You must have the MySQL development libraries installed on the machine that you are building
BIND on and a MySQL database installed on a system that is accessible from your DNS servers.
You
must also have a C compiler such as GCC and feel comfortable building software from source.
Supported Systems
The MySQL BIND SDB driver should build on any system that you can build BIND 9 on.
So far,
it has only been tested on SuSE Linux 8.2 and Red Hat Linux 7.2, but it should also work on the
following systems;
AIX
COMPAQ Tru64 UNIX
FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD & BSD/OS
HP-UX except for 11.11
IRIX64
Red Hat, SuSE, Slackware & Debian GNU/Linux
Solaris
OpenUNIX
It may also be possible to compile on the following systems,
Mac OS X 10.1
Windows NT/W2K/XP/2003
Copyright © 2004
Robert Prouse
This project is supported by
Semaview, Inc