Bill Shupp wrote:
Ryan White wrote:
Wow nictool. I didn't know it was still developed AND open source... Isn't that made buy the dajoba guys. What happened to them. I used to love the perl software they wrote. It is too bad that they let their website just kinda die out. I tried to email Joseph a while back but there is no dajoba domain. Sorry for the off topicness...
Yeah, you might check out the "history" part of nictool.com. Matt Simerson and the Interland crew added a lot of stuff while NicTool was slowly winding down active development... eventually, after Matt left Interland, he got permission to open source NicTool and continue development. I have not played much with it yet, but it's a very scalable tool, more than most people even need. But it's the most robust DNS management tool I'm aware of in the open source world.
VegaDNS was actually commissioned well *before* NicTool was open sourced and (upon getting a demo account from Matt at that time) I even based some its structure on NicTool. In fact, at that time you couldn't even *buy* a license for NicTool for some reason. So, VegaDNS was born since nothing else was available for djbdns except dnsadmin, which did not fit my needs.
Regards,
Bill
NicTool seems like a nice system, no question. However, I'm still leaning towards VegaDNS because:
- It is written in PHP which I find easier to customize than Perl
- It doesn't require the myriad of Perl modules that NicTool does
- It doesn't require the XML/SOAP stuff (and several patches to work with Apache2)
- NicTool's development isn't as active as VegaDNS
- NicTool's "client/server" stuff and mandatory rsync update mechanism seems way more complicated than we need
NicTool does, however, have a very nice permissions system (Bob Hutchinson's recent post on this topic covers most of it) and a more refined look/feel. Getting it installed and working isn't a trivial task, and there aren't a lot of people using the system that can help you if you run into trouble. It also has no concept of a "local" database update, e.g. it doesn't expect you to run a tinydns server on the same server as you run NicToolServer on.
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