IPAM advantages (was Re: MySQL BIND SDB)

2010-11-16 Thread Karl Auer
On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 11:16 -0800, Chris Buxton wrote: > With a management solution, of course. :-) > [...] > The advantages include: > > - Two admins with different ideas of how files should be named and > laid out don't butt heads. The management solution makes the decision. > - There is an audi

Re: IPAM advantages (was Re: MySQL BIND SDB)

2010-11-16 Thread Gary Wallis
Karl Auer wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 11:16 -0800, Chris Buxton wrote: With a management solution, of course. :-) [...] The advantages include: - Two admins with different ideas of how files should be named and laid out don't butt heads. The management solution makes the decision. - There is a

Re: IPAM advantages (was Re: MySQL BIND SDB)

2010-11-16 Thread Chris Buxton
On Nov 16, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Gary Wallis wrote: > IPAM is an Infloblox proprietary system that Cricket Liu is involved with. No. IPAM = IP Address Management. It is not a product, but rather a product category. I believe the term was coined by Lucent, or whoever owned QIP at the time, sometime

Re: IPAM advantages (was Re: MySQL BIND SDB)

2010-11-17 Thread Gary Wallis
Chris Buxton wrote: On Nov 16, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Gary Wallis wrote: IPAM is an Infloblox proprietary system that Cricket Liu is involved with. No. IPAM = IP Address Management. It is not a product, but rather a product category. I believe the term was coined by Lucent, or whoever owned QIP

Re: IPAM advantages (was Re: MySQL BIND SDB)

2010-11-17 Thread Alan Clegg
On 11/17/2010 7:15 AM, Gary Wallis wrote: [.. Discussion of non-open-source IPAM solutions ..] > (If we use FOSS BIND why should we support anti FOSS businesses like > many mentioned above?) Several of the businesses listed in the original post are BIND Forum members and are supporting ISC in th

Re: IPAM advantages (was Re: MySQL BIND SDB)

2010-11-21 Thread Doug Barton
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Gary Wallis wrote: (If we use FOSS BIND why should we support anti FOSS businesses like many mentioned above?) Because business is business, and using the right tool for the job is more important than adhering to the purity of an ideology developed in the absence of real