Here's my quick take on it, having run with both interfaces ...
If you have a small amount of domains to manage and a low number of
entries then the OSX interface is fine. It does some nice things for
you (like automatic reverse lookup entries, etc), but you do a LOT of
mouse clicking and hitting save buttons.
if you have a larger number of things to manage and want to interface
with other things ... for example I had a small script that took
about 200 entries from a database and exported them to config files
directly for ease of management... then doing things by hand is
preferable (in my eyes). Much less work chasing things down if you
do it in one spot and then send it out 'to the world' so to speak.
So there is no real 'best' way to do it. In the end if you're
comfortable with CLI and *nix, and especially BIND then YDL is
great. If you're a newbie to managing this sort of stuff then you
have a learning curve ahead of you either way you look at it, and be
prepared to spend time reading and being frustrated ;) They both
have their oddities and things to get used to before you are
comfortable with them.
In the end the real BIND/*nix experience is more helpful IMHO, as
it's portable. The OSX stuff is proprietary and can be changed as
early as the next OS revision and then you learn the interface all
over again (kind of, but you can see the point).
Mark
On 25-May-05, at 5:13 PM, Eric Dunbar wrote:
On Wednesday 25 May 2005 13:43, Eric Dunbar wrote:
[Reply is OT]
Anyway, here's the off-topic thought (may or may not apply to your
situation).
Oftentimes orgs try to "re-use" old hardware by running Linux/BSD to
save a bit of cash. When you consider the expense of salaries
related
to setting up the "free" software I suspect it would've often been
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