>Can anyone with experience comment whether Simple DNS is a good solution to >handle thousands of DNS records or not?
I haven't used TinyDNS, but while a GUI is great for non-techies to manage record-by-record, zone-at-a-time, that obviously doesn't scale worth sh!t when you get 100's or 1000's of domains, and 1000's of records. This non-scaleablity is true of any list-oriented GUI, be it MS million-dollar MMC or be it a toy DNS like Tiny. The problem is that DNS is a not a list but a database, and a database needs a database front-end. example: try to use IMail GUI to manage 5000 domains and 200k users. The nature of DNS records is that there are tricks you can do with BIND's plain text files and directives that enormously simplify maintenance. >If not, is there another good solution? We run Microsoft DNS now and are >looking for something that might >be easier to manage. I recommend BIND8 on W2K or *nix. As a consultant, I clean up bad DNS design for ISP's and corps, and setup new DNS servers with BIND in ways that make it both very manageable and scaleable. Contact me off-list if interested. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
