PDNS to support Views

[Habbie]

I was wondering if powerdns supports the concept of "views" the way ISC Bind does?

I have the following scenario:

PDNS -----> FW -----> INTERNET -----> CLIENT1
^
|
SERVER-------|

PDNS and SERVER are in the INSIDE Network (DMZ) and have private ip addresses, the problem is that when SERVER asks for a dns record PDNS should answer the A private IP address, but when CLIENT1 asks for the same record, PDNS should answer with the public IP address.

Thanks

Luciano Ramos
TelViso

[Habbie]

Author: ahu
Adding views would complicate the nameserver in many ways. Please run two copies of PowerDNS, they are both free!

Sorry I can't help you better.

[Sharaf5]

Running many instances of the same application is no the ideal view of any thing

I'm not a C++ developer but I have a look at database structre

But after nearly 11 years won't anything been changed ?
I could suggest to only have more one table views and more one column in records called 'views' that have views which is allowed to call for this query if no match retrun an empty response
global view should be the default

I think it's useful feature after all
using unbound with views I was able to give my local server local responses so nginx go for the desired distination and serve as reverse proxy and SSL terminator while no data is exposed
and clients could resolve separatly
all on top of 3 proccess only firewall, nginx, unbound

That even worked on a very limited resource machine
and I see that pdns is more flexable with the abilaty to use database as a backend
I was hopeful that this feature may replace unbound by pdns for me
and maybe make it an alternative to coredns with k8s

[Habbie]

Views are actually on our roadmap now, but I don't have details yet.

[Sharaf5]

Awesome news
would you open this issue agian once you have more datails
as most forums didn't mention you may support it