[bind10-dev] SQL in BIND 10

[Stephen Frost]

* JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 (jinmei at isc.org) wrote:
> Hence my
> repeated question: what people want to do with SQL (or DB in general)
> backend for DNS?

I believe that Shane hit the nail on the head wrt this question already-
people want a open-schema SQL backend which they can integrate into
their provisioning (and monitoring and billing and, and, and) systems.
They want to eliminate the existing glue code that basically exports
that data from their other systems to flat zone files.  They want to be
able to specify the exact queries.

All that said, we should have a good, well considered, schema that comes
'bundled' with all the necessary pieces to build a working system using
each backend supported.  We need that for our own testing but in many
cases it may be sufficient, at least as a starting point, for end users.

I've not heard of anyone asking to query a bind server using SQL (or the
MySQL, or any other, protocol, excepting actual DNS, of course).  Some
users (though none that I've heard of..) may have created a foreign data
wrapper (FDW) to issue DNS queries out of an SQL database, but that's
much more of a special case- you can't put any constraints on that, you
can't depend on that for any kind of relational integrity, etc.  It
would simply be a way to pull data from the DNS world into the database.

	Thanks,

		Stephen
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