RE: In a bit of bind...

2009-06-02 Thread gb10hkzo-nanog
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/

RE: In a bit of bind...

2009-06-02 Thread Graeme Fowler
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

Re: In a bit of bind...

2009-06-01 Thread Scott Morris
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:

Re: In a bit of bind...

2009-06-01 Thread Chris Meidinger
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

Re: In a bit of bind...

2009-06-01 Thread Colin Alston
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Ben Matthew ben.matt...@timlradio.co.ukwrote: 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

RE: In a bit of bind...

2009-06-01 Thread Ben Matthew
@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 another provider who has

Re: In a bit of bind...

2009-06-01 Thread Curtis Maurand
: 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 running an Anycast network (2 x master

Re: In a bit of bind...

2009-06-01 Thread Daryl G. Jurbala
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