Re: Experience with DDNS (RFC 2136)

2011-10-13 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
I'm looking for success (or failure) stories to back up my statement :) Thank you all for replies, on and off-list. If you are interested in a summary, I've posted it at [1]. Regards, -JP [1] http://dnssexy.net/538 ___ Please visit

Re: Experience with DDNS (RFC 2136)

2011-10-13 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
At 11 Oct 2011 13:57:38 +0100, Chris Thompson c...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Maybe an off topic in this thread, but out of curiosity, is there any specific reason you don't use the database as the direct source of the zone with BIND 9's dlz or PowerDNS? In general it will be slower, and I can't

Re: Experience with DDNS (RFC 2136)

2011-10-11 Thread Chris Thompson
On Oct 7 2011, Phil Mayers wrote: On 10/07/2011 06:43 PM, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote: Maybe an off topic in this thread, but out of curiosity, is there any specific reason you don't use the database as the direct source of the zone with BIND 9's dlz or PowerDNS? In general it will be slower,

Re: Experience with DDNS (RFC 2136)

2011-10-08 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
4. Perceived second-class status of DLZ Ack. 6. Too-tight coupling between the SQL DB and DNS It'll be interesting to see how BIND 10 [1] handles this coupling [2]. I haven't (yet) had the inclination to experiment, mainly because (and now back on topic :-) DDNS is apparently not yet ready

Re: Experience with DDNS (RFC 2136)

2011-10-07 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
At 06 Oct 2011 20:26:48 +0100, Chris Thompson c...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Are you willing to share the stories of your DDNS deployments, maybe including approximate number of zones, records, update frequencies, etc.? We converted all our regular DNS updating operations to use dynamic updates in

Re: Experience with DDNS (RFC 2136)

2011-10-07 Thread Phil Mayers
On 10/07/2011 06:43 PM, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote: Maybe an off topic in this thread, but out of curiosity, is there any specific reason you don't use the database as the direct source of the zone with BIND 9's dlz or PowerDNS? In general it will be slower, and I can't speak for Chris but

Re: Experience with DDNS (RFC 2136)

2011-10-07 Thread Evan Hunt
1. DNSSEC Of all of them, #1 and #6 were probably the most important. Note that this will be less of an issue in BIND 9.9: you can set up a DLZ master and configure a slave to do inline signing. -- Evan Hunt -- e...@isc.org Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.

Experience with DDNS (RFC 2136)

2011-10-06 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
[ pardon the possible duplicate ] I'm a fan of RFC 2136 Dynamic DNS and, if I think it appropriate for a particular use case, sometimes suggest DDNS to customers. I often have a hard time convincing people to use DDNS and am doubted regarding its stability and/or performance. I'm looking

Re: Experience with DDNS (RFC 2136)

2011-10-06 Thread Phil Mayers
On 10/06/2011 09:44 AM, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: [ pardon the possible duplicate ] I'm a fan of RFC 2136 Dynamic DNS and, if I think it appropriate for a particular use case, sometimes suggest DDNS to customers. I often have a hard time convincing people to use DDNS and am doubted regarding its

Re: Experience with DDNS (RFC 2136)

2011-10-06 Thread Alex Sharaz
I'm rolling out DDNS in conjunction with 802.1x/Mac authentication. When we role out network authentication in a building, I use IP address pools for the auth and unauth networks. Auth network also uses DDNS to fwd/reverse register the host in an appropriate domain e.g.

Re: Experience with DDNS (RFC 2136)

2011-10-06 Thread Chris Thompson
On Oct 6 2011, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: [ pardon the possible duplicate ] I'm a fan of RFC 2136 Dynamic DNS and, if I think it appropriate for a particular use case, sometimes suggest DDNS to customers. I often have a hard time convincing people to use DDNS and am doubted regarding its