Table A-2. MySQL backend capabilities
Native | Yes |
Master | No |
Slave | No |
Superslave | No |
Autoserial | Yes |
Case | Insensitive |
This is the driver that corresponds to the set of XML-RPC tools available from PowerDNS. For database schemas, see there.
It takes a number of parameters:
Database name to connect to
Database host to connect to
Password to connect with
MySQL socket to use for connecting
MySQL user to connect as
It has been observed that InnoDB tables outperform the default MyISAM tables by a large margin. Furthermore, the default number of backends (3) should be raised to 10 or 15 for busy servers.