Is anyone running Bind9 on a Pogoplug V2 (or Dockstar)?

[jeajea]

Is anyone running Bind9 on a Pogoplug V2 (or Dockstar)?
Is a swapfile required?

[crousti]

I tried on a dockstar. It is quite heavy (as in really heavy, even without making queries the system was very slow) so for my use i went back to dnsmasq, as i can do just fine with that.
I am afraid i cant exactly answer your question, as i always have some swap configured.

[jeajea]

Thanks for the input. The Pogoplug V2 has the same processor but it does have double the memory. If no one else responds I think I will give it a try. I already have bind9 running on a Ubuntu Athlon II x2 system so the configuration files should be close. The Athlon II systems draws about 40 watts at idle which is a lot more than the Pogoplug.

[pepedog]

Try bind, if its to heavy give dnsmasq a shot. I prefer dnsmasq

[jeajea]

With Bind9 I am using views to handle hosts with connections to two different subnets. I don’t think Dnsmasq the equivalent functionality.

My home network has two physical networks (LAN1 and LAN2) connected to a Zyxel USG50 router. The USG50 connects to the Internet via a cable modem. For IPv6 I use a Hurricane Electric IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnel and have a routed /48. The USG 50 handles the tunnel, DHCP and DHCPv6 for each network, and IPv4 plus IPv6 routing to the internet and between the networks. I have assigned a different /64 subnet of my /48 to each network. Hosts have either static or reserved (by MAC address in the USG) IPv4 addresses. At this time only the USG50 and my DNS server have static IPv6 addresses. All other hosts (that are dual stack) get there address via DHCPv6 from the USG50. The USG50 doesn’t support IPv6 reservations. The server is running Ubuntu 13.04 32 bit on an Athlon II x2 with 8GB memory and a 64GB SSD.

Some of my hosts have two NICs and are connected to both subnets (two different IP addresses. I have created two acls (lan1 and lan2) and two views (lan1 and lan2) so that bind will provide the correct IPv4 address for these hosts based on the requesters subnet. The DNS server is only connected to LAN1 and has only 1 static IPv6 address and 1 static IPv4 address. The DNS server is the only host with an AAAA record and the only host in the IPv6 reverse zones.

I would describe my network as IPv4 with IPv6 connectivity.

Is there a way to do this with Dnsmasq?

[jeajea]

Bind9 is working both zones for IPv4 and IPv6 without a swap file.

At idle it was using about 6 watts with only the built in Ethernet and no hard disk. After I added a USB Ethernet port it is using about 6.3.watts.
Even if you don’t run your own name server I recommend installing dnsutils.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
dig google.com

; <<>> DiG 9.9.2-P2 <<>> google.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 13703
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 11, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;google.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
google.com. 129 IN A 173.194.37.97
google.com. 129 IN A 173.194.37.99
google.com. 129 IN A 173.194.37.104
google.com. 129 IN A 173.194.37.101
google.com. 129 IN A 173.194.37.103
google.com. 129 IN A 173.194.37.110
google.com. 129 IN A 173.194.37.100
google.com. 129 IN A 173.194.37.96
google.com. 129 IN A 173.194.37.102
google.com. 129 IN A 173.194.37.105
google.com. 129 IN A 173.194.37.98

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
. 154699 IN NS f.root-servers.net.
. 154699 IN NS k.root-servers.net.
. 154699 IN NS a.root-servers.net.
. 154699 IN NS j.root-servers.net.
. 154699 IN NS b.root-servers.net.
. 154699 IN NS i.root-servers.net.
. 154699 IN NS c.root-servers.net.
. 154699 IN NS h.root-servers.net.
. 154699 IN NS e.root-servers.net.
. 154699 IN NS l.root-servers.net.
. 154699 IN NS g.root-servers.net.
. 154699 IN NS d.root-servers.net.
. 154699 IN NS m.root-servers.net.

;; Query time: 16 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.251#53(192.168.1.251)
;; WHEN: Wed Dec 31 19:03:23 1969
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 426

[root@PLUG251 ~]# dig ds249.home.test

; <<>> DiG 9.9.2-P2 <<>> ds249.home.test
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 23489
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 5

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ds249.home.test. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ds249.home.test. 604800 IN CNAME 3n249.home.test.
3n249.home.test. 604800 IN A 192.168.1.249

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
home.test. 604800 IN NS 2ns1.home.test.
home.test. 604800 IN NS 2ns2.home.test.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
2ns1.home.test. 604800 IN A 192.168.1.207
2ns1.home.test. 604800 IN AAAA 2001:470:bddf:1::207
2ns2.home.test. 604800 IN A 192.168.1.251
2ns2.home.test. 604800 IN AAAA 2001:470:bddf:1::251

;; Query time: 10 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.251#53(192.168.1.251)
;; WHEN: Wed Dec 31 19:03:41 1969
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 206

[root@PLUG251 ~]# dig dslreports.com

; <<>> DiG 9.9.2-P2 <<>> dslreports.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 31919
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;dslreports.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
dslreports.com. 1200 IN A 209.123.109.175

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
. 154046 IN NS d.root-servers.net.
. 154046 IN NS a.root-servers.net.
. 154046 IN NS j.root-servers.net.
. 154046 IN NS e.root-servers.net.
. 154046 IN NS g.root-servers.net.
. 154046 IN NS f.root-servers.net.
. 154046 IN NS l.root-servers.net.
. 154046 IN NS i.root-servers.net.
. 154046 IN NS c.root-servers.net.
. 154046 IN NS b.root-servers.net.
. 154046 IN NS k.root-servers.net.
. 154046 IN NS m.root-servers.net.
. 154046 IN NS h.root-servers.net.

;; Query time: 69 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.251#53(192.168.1.251)
;; WHEN: Wed Dec 31 19:04:01 1969
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 270

[root@PLUG251 ~]# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 252532 105036 147496 0 3628 67916
-/+ buffers/cache: 33492 219040
Swap: 0 0 0
[root@PLUG251 ~]# dig dslreports.com

; <<>> DiG 9.9.2-P2 <<>> dslreports.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 62811
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;dslreports.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
dslreports.com. 1126 IN A 209.123.109.175

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
. 154657 IN NS g.root-servers.net.
. 154657 IN NS c.root-servers.net.
. 154657 IN NS a.root-servers.net.
. 154657 IN NS h.root-servers.net.
. 154657 IN NS d.root-servers.net.
. 154657 IN NS e.root-servers.net.
. 154657 IN NS i.root-servers.net.
. 154657 IN NS b.root-servers.net.
. 154657 IN NS f.root-servers.net.
. 154657 IN NS j.root-servers.net.
. 154657 IN NS l.root-servers.net.
. 154657 IN NS m.root-servers.net.
. 154657 IN NS k.root-servers.net.

;; Query time: 14 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.251#53(192.168.1.251)
;; WHEN: Wed Dec 31 19:05:15 1969
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 270

[root@PLUG251 ~]#')

[rhester72]

There's also Unbound, which runs quite nicely with (in my experience) lower resource requirements than bind.

Rodney

[WarheadsSE]

and pdns/power dns