Exploring PowerDNS
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PowerDNS [1] is an amazing, feature-rich and versatile domain name system (DNS) server solution. Originally created by PowerDNS.com BV as a commercial product, it was later opened up and licensed under the GPL. Today, PowerDNS thrives with both commercial [2] and community contributions, making it an outstanding DNS server alternative.
DNS, of course, is the distributed, hierarchical naming system that allows us to map what would be IP addresses to much more humanly digestible addresses. Thankfully, we no longer live in the early days of the Arpanet (precursor to today's Internet), where we had to transfer large host files from node to node. Its compact codebase and focus on security, scalability, and reliability make PowerDNS a great nameserver choice; it is jam packed with features that would impress any network or sys admin (Table 1).
Table 1
PowerDNS Features
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