If there are enough deltas that aren’t being made by Dynamic DNS, then I would suggest just looking into an IPAM solution like Infoblox or Bluecat. Either one can provide a management interface and BIND server that can then be merged with your existing zone through a number of API options…
--James From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 8:28 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Comments Integrated. They tell me they make a couple updates a day to the zone. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 7:53 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] DNS Comments Weird name but they get good press. I haven't tried them myself, but I've heard of them. Most of the others out there tend to want to take over the DNS vs. provide tools. Personally, I'm a fan of setting it up well (design for success and all that) and using cli to manage so I haven't really researched after-market tools. One thing that comes to mind: is this going to be integrated or traditional zone with primary and secondary configurations? How much maintenance is expected? On 1/8/07, Brian Desmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What a weird name – thanks for the link Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 7:33 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Comments I like these guys: http://www.miceandmen.com/ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 4:56 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Comments Well there hasn't been some sort of ruling on whether the existing BIND folks will get new tools or the AD team (which is very gui dependent) will take it over. Are there any commercial tools you'd recommend I look at as far as management goes? Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 1:35 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] DNS Comments Backup a second - how do you plan to manage the zones? I ask because this might be a good time to re-evaluate the metadata concept of the zones. In BIND you see that information because of the way you manage the zone. In AD there is a different way to manage the zone information that doesn't include that information. If you decide to manage the zones the same way, then handle the comments the same way. If you decide to go GUI (often a shock for a real BIND techie and often doesn't last long) then consider using a CMDB-type of mechanism to record the metadata. You may also consider some alternate tools to manage the DNS systems instead of the built in tools. Performance is pretty rough with the included anyway so it's not like you won't consider it later :) This is a change in the way they do things. It deserves a change in the way they are used to doing things. Al On 1/5/07, Brian Desmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone on this DL have experience with this problem? I am working on potentially migrating numerous UNIX BIND zones to AD Integrated DNS. The BIND zones have various comments in them which go with the record. I believe the dnsNode class in AD supports a notes field or similar but the GUI doesn't. How do people manage metadata about their DNS zones? Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132
