Re: managing DNS

2010-01-06 Thread Gerry Hull
I' a big fan of dyndns.org; I also use www.zonedit.com, who have been excellent over the past 10 years or so... >From their FAQ: "How can I backup/download my zone files? If you want to back up all ZoneEdit DNS data for a given zone, use named-xfer: named-xfer -z atreju.com -f atreju.com.txt ns

Re: managing DNS

2010-01-06 Thread Alan Johnson
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: > On 12/30/2009 09:23 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > > That plus a good provider like dyndns.com looks like > > the answer > > DynDNS is good and local. > I too like DynDNS. I don't know the state of their tools

Re: managing DNS

2009-12-30 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 12/30/2009 09:23 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > That plus a good provider like dyndns.com looks like > the answer DynDNS is good and local. GoDaddy ... I've had to pull out Wireshark to convince their tech support people that they had a problem. -Bill -- Bill Mc

Re: managing DNS

2009-12-30 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
What I found was powerdns http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerDNS That plus a good provider like dyndns.com looks like the answer On Dec 30, 2009 4:55 PM, "Ben Scott" wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) < g...@freephile.com> wrote: > I'm still ... When I did this k

Re: managing DNS

2009-12-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > I'm still looking for pointers on how people manage large sets of DNS > zones: querying, testing, migrating etc. When I did this kind of thing, I ran ISC BIND, and used shell tools to manage the zone files, scripting bulk chan

Re: managing DNS

2009-12-30 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > At work I have over 700 domains to manage.  We use dnsmadeeasy which I > don't find particularly easy.  We also use GoDaddy to register domains > - and GoDaddy includes DNS management tools so I'm inclined to just > use them for

managing DNS

2009-12-29 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
At work I have over 700 domains to manage. We use dnsmadeeasy which I don't find particularly easy. We also use GoDaddy to register domains - and GoDaddy includes DNS management tools so I'm inclined to just use them for both registration and DNS management. Of course, over time, the DNS records