Once upon a time, whilst working for a fairly well-known UK domain
registration company, I put together a system built on an early version
of the BIND-DLZ patchset against BIND 9.2.5 (If I recall correctly).
It used MySQL as the backend database (because that's what the
registration system used fo
Hi,
I have not been following this thread too closely, but I spotted the last
poster talking about a database backend to DNS.
There are some interesting thoughts on the matter in a Nominet Blog Post here :
http://blog.nominet.org.uk/tech/2008/06/02/nameservers-and-very-large-zones/
On Jun 1, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Curtis Maurand wrote:
I've been using powerdns for quite a while and I've found it to be
solid and stable. It'll use quite a few different backends
includeing BIND zone files, but its claim to fame is that it uses
mysql.
a list of different backends can be
,
Ben
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From: Peter Hicks [mailto:peter.hi...@poggs.co.uk]
Sent: 01 June 2009 12:42
To: Ben Matthew
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: In a bit of bind...
Ben,
Ben Matthew wrote:
I have six servers in total, two multi-homed servers for ordinary DNS and four
servers ru
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: In a bit of bind...
Ben,
Ben Matthew wrote:
> I have six servers in total, two multi-homed servers for ordinary DNS and
> four servers running an Anycast network (2 x master and slave).
>
For DNS, you may find it easier to outsource hosting to anothe
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Ben Matthew wrote:
> Anyway my company currently uses BIND for our DNS requirements (9.6.0).
> I'm always pretty keen on updating, when advised to, in order to patch
> vulnerabilities and so forth as we have a fairly popular website and I'm
> sure there's lots of
On 01.06.2009, at 12:59, Ben Matthew wrote:
Finally I've managed to successfully configure BIND 9 as a slave to
a myDNS server and the AXFR transfers seem to be working fine. This
strikes me as being quite a nice balance of ease of use and
reliability in case myDNS fails on me. Ok I appre
May seem a little simplistic, but how about Webmin. :) Runs on most
linux-type systems over SSL/https and allows you to administer your DNS
(and other services) without issues and provide the things you listed below.
Oh, and it's free. And it's already done.
Scott
Ben Matthew wrote:
F
Firstly... I apologise for the atrocious pun in the subject; just can't seem to
help myself.
Anyway my company currently uses BIND for our DNS requirements (9.6.0). I'm
always pretty keen on updating, when advised to, in order to patch
vulnerabilities and so forth as we have a fairly popular w
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