Backends

The following table describes the supported backends and some of their capabilities.

Name Native Primary Secondary Producer Consumer Autoprimary DNS Update DNSSEC Launch
BIND Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes bind
Generic Mysql Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes gmysql
Generic ODBC Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes godbc
Generic Postgresql Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes gpgsql
Generic SQLite3 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes gsqlite3
GeoIP Yes No No No No No No Yes geoip
LDAP Yes Yes No No No No No No ldap
LMDB Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes lmdb
Lua2 Yes Yes No No No No No Yes lua2
Pipe Yes No No No No No No No pipe
Random Yes No No No No No No No random
Remote Yes Yes* Yes* No No Yes* No Yes* remote
TinyDNS Yes Yes No No No No No No tinydns

All the generic SQL backends have similar functionality, apart from the database they communicate with. These backends have features unique to the generic SQL backends.