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[rvtraveller]

Let's be honest with each other (you to admins, at least in this topic) for just a few minutes here.  110mb's name servers are no where near the quality that they should be at.  Other free hosts have name servers that update almost instantly.  Why do ours take 18 hours?  Why do ours "drop entries"?  It just seems like even though we have great hosting, our name servers could use some upgrading.

From what I understand, we currently use BIND for our name servers.  Which is fine except it keeps failing.  I suggest we start trying alternatives.  What's the worst that can happen, the new ones fail?  Big deal, we are used to it anyways so who cares.  You say that 110mbPanel is a modified LayeredPanel so I think it is again time to follow their lead.  The new LayeredPanel that is being sold is with PowerDNS.  I suggest 110mb convert to PowerDNS and see how it does.  As I said before, what's the worst that can happen, it drops entries?

Anyways, your thoughts:

[EpicCyndaquil]

like you said, how could it hurt? Worth a shot.

[stewartrodgers]

I've got to a gree with you. They're already trying all sorts of new stuff, may as well throw this one into the mix.

[inp o҉rtb]

BIND is pretty much the standard for DNS servers. It is unlikely that it is any less reliable than other software such as PowerDNS. PowerDNS supports an advanced plugin architecture and therefore offers more functionality than BIND. If anything, the increased complexity and requirements would only serve to hurt reliability, not improve it.

What additional functionality do we need? I can almost guarantee that it's not MySQL backend support ;p

[rvtraveller]

It isn't the increased functionality we want...It's the reliability.

[iNDECiSiVE]

The problem with this though is that they need to buy it and 110mb is short of money like we all know..

What additional functionality do we need?

Working DNS? 

[rvtraveller]

Actually it is open source and free...http://www.powerdns.com/en/downloads.aspx

[inp o҉rtb]

It's GPLv2, so as far as licensing goes, it's kosher. On the other hand, it would not improve reliability so why bother? People switch to pdns for features, not reliability.

[Piotr GRD]

You know what, rvtraveller? I don't think that the problem is on a BIND side. (if we are talking about BIND9, don't consider any previous version).

BIND is one of the most popular DNS systems and it would be not so popular if it would have such serious bugs in itself. The only problem with BIND9 can be the incorrect settings, but that's the problem of administrator and not the software.

And if it's not the problem of bad configuration of BIND, then I think that the problem is on the 110MBPanel side. If you'll check this page: http://www.110mb.com/pages/110mbpanel.htm - you'll notice words about DNS being differently setup.
Last time that there was some major DNS failure in here the explanation was that one of the IPs was beyond .255 range. What could be the reason? Error in BIND itself? Or such update of BINDs database done by 110MBPanel? When I consider the problems with adding and removing (especially removing) extra domain names in 110MBPanel I am more convinced that's the latter.

I think that while customizing Layered Panel into 110MBPanel the programmers code alot of usefull things in it, but also some bugs has been introduced. And as no-one apart of 110mb itself don't test and maintain it (this panel can be bought, but I doubt that anyone really use it on any large host) so the bugs still exists in it. And by looking how current day to day issues are handled, how famous support ticket system works etc. - I also doubt that any works are in progress on improving or fixing 110MBPanel. (This is strictly joint with DNS issues, adding/removing extra domains, auto updates .htaccess privileges on extra domains, fixing file manager issues etc.)



^{_{[offtopic] I just found that 110mb most probably don't use RAID configuration for hard disks, so there is no any guarantee of users data being safe. If some day some hard disk fail completely without possibility to recover the data, then there will be no other way to get it back (such situation was in the past on box14 if I remember correctly. [/offtopic]}}