From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 25 16:47:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38E2C16A492 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:47:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jsimola@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8E2F43D66 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:47:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jsimola@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so129308uge for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:47:10 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Tya5qx1kRTotItyWJXya76zGLDtriJvp+qcoj6e0+avmvhuRL5SmCBg4FnPOhoj0Gkp6PJTG7wrZko/GkFHAvZqezSLJ0UBZOSJKYPFRT3G8gGwg+l6F00UZJTlxcYZVT9fYc/S75EqS0N+nOaJQEnlV5IfTYR4Vw6Ixz78qyUk= Received: by 10.78.94.37 with SMTP id r37mr61099hub; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:47:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.153.10 with HTTP; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:47:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8eea04080610250947j38285f7ct5630751baf28b41d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:47:09 -0700 From: "Jon Simola" To: "Odhiambo Washington" , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20061025160757.GH72956@ns2.wananchi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061025160757.GH72956@ns2.wananchi.com> Cc: Subject: Re: Managing multiple DNS Servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:47:15 -0000 On 10/25/06, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Would you please share ideas on methods you have used to manage your > name servers. So far, whenever I delete a zone on the master, I have to > go to the slaves and delete the zone. I wish I could avoid such steps. I run djbdns for a few hundred domains. Works much better for me than BIND ever did, and it's very easy to script. The migration was not trivial, but much easier than the continual BIND problems that I seemed to encounter. See http://lifewithdjbdns.org/ and djb's site at http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html Updating slaves is as simple as scp'ing the compiled file to them, and because all the servers use the same source file for serving queries, there is none of the often amusing zone transfer problems that BIND seems to have a penchant for. -- Jon