From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 24 18:24:40 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 116B9106566B for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:24:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zam4ever@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7C958FC1A for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:24:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zam4ever@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h27so953216wxd.7 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:24:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:mime-version:content-type; bh=IqthqSKTagfIrUNMwzp4D5XskOdRGexSHKmh+MGNhyI=; b=u0gqMxb5TV6sh/TluesPlJc0nA5eZD/9iiG/S86MmC92A6zj9fpbmf7y5GJ/c2Dx6F cynE47/SnFb1FP1Z+cSSuDq/fXriXTUf3P6RDOtKr8y243wutHCAmTpPUqA16JdjDVjP jquwgyvkCw8HElYPDr2kpAeOQd/QfaEKmfFu4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type; b=RxGBBUf007mRm9NEMmSF25cyp9FEGLYdRy2jO0epndQHCZdR8Tld3vF5Wuid8kr4yz 5FU8f96/8HR7PlTcmobAWrUZICVZwhkNCLtH7U497oNPr2EHV8xfcchBPXB4yMSsaAOV dgCYyIFjZN4MoK266WJimbwr+zWFsf9fjwC2U= Received: by 10.100.41.11 with SMTP id o11mr965382ano.144.1216922382056; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.232.16 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:59:42 +0800 From: "Zamri Besar" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Zamri Besar Subject: DNS and DHCP Management System X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:24:40 -0000 Good morning, When network are keep growing over time, network services such as dns and dhcp are playing an important function to any network administrators/engineers, which for a single downtime, it will cause a chaos to end users. By having redundancy/fail-over/etc services and proper plans, these failures will be mitigated and reduced, and off-course, transparent to end users. Without proper planning, choosing suitable tools/application, and testing, I believe that deployment and management of dns and dhcp services will become headache and a big challenge to network administrators/engineers. So, in this e-mail, I would like to ask and seek advices on how do you manage these two services, and from your past experiences, which is the best free/open-souce tools to manage a big deployment of dns and dhcp services? >From the google, I found the following options which are promising for above jobs: HostDB: The Best Damn host2DNS/DHCP Script Ever Written http://www.usenix.org/event/lisa05/tech/limoncelli.html http://everythingsysadmin.com/hostdb/ Maintain http://maintainproject.osuosl.org/ Sauron http://sauron.jyu.fi/ LDAP sdb back-end for BIND 9 http://bind9-ldap.bayour.com/ Have a nice day! -zamri-