ashley maher wrote:
I'd prefer something working with bind9, database backended, able to handle many hundreds of zone files, and multiple dns servers, web interface.
If your question is because you work for a site with thousands of machines, then DHCP and Dynamic DNS are designed to make the pain go away. The major trick there is to have a list of all the MAC addresses maintained from a database of contact details. Then you've got a way of tracking down odd activity. Configure dhcpd not to issue IPs in a subnet which can only access the registration system for MAC addresses not in the list. One nice system I saw had the MAC address already in the registration form. We offer a DNS secondary service for a lot of people. We just have a Subversion-controlled .m4 file which creates a file included in named.conf. When committed Subversion runs 'make' and calls 'cfengine' to distribute the configurations to the secondary servers and HUP them to read the changed file. This seems like a lot of infrastructure, but the machines are administered via cfengine and subversion anyway. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
