You want to keep the costs low but are using a paid OS (Windows) over a free one (CentOS/Linux)?
If the PC runs Windows chances are it will run CentOS or some other Linux distro. There is no cost as you simply reload the system with the new OS. BIND is ported to Windows if you must go that route. Also there may be a port of BIND for Cygwin which would allow you to run BIND in a Linux type of environment under Windows. ________________________________ From: bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Todd Nine Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 1:20 AM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Building bind with GEO backend on Windows for Server 2008 Hi all, I'm charged with building a geographically distributed application, and I'm having a lot of trouble finding a good DNS server we can use with Windows. Historically I've always run our applications on Cent OS, but for this project we're using Windows as it's the existing infrastructure and we want to keep our costs low for our DNS servers. We have some basic requirements below, and I could use some guidance from the developer list on how to best proceed. 1. Stability 2. Return IP's for a DNS lookup to a user based on their location (Geo IP backend) 3. Nodes actively communicate with DNS server to announce they're online 4. DNS server removes a stale node's IP records if a node crashes 5. Only serves as a leaf DNS server, does not perform recursion. 6. Authoritative for subdomains such as www.spidertracks.com I would like to use the latest 9.6.1-P1 release with this patched code http://www.caraytech.com/geodns/. Rather than a MySQL backend we'd like to build something that can either use ODBC, or MsSQL as that's the database we need to use. We're aiming for building a system similar to http://wiki.blitzed.org/DNS_balancing, so any help and advice. I've built and maintained many basic BIND installations over the years, but this one is outside my experience so any help/advice/guidance regarding windows gotchas before I encounter them would be greatly appreciated Thanks, Todd Please consider our environment before printing this e-mail or attachments. ---------------------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. Thank you. ----------------------------------
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