From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 26 18:46:29 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 03F0F16A4D8 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:46:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fgildred@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 628EA43D88 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:46:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fgildred@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin04-en2 [10.13.10.149]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout16/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k9QIjZ3N015062 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:45:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.16.30] (host-69-48-17-53.spr.choiceone.net [69.48.17.53]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin04/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k9QIjWbi004304 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:45:34 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) In-Reply-To: <20061025160757.GH72956@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20061025160757.GH72956@ns2.wananchi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Fred Gildred Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:45:28 -0400 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-Brightmail-scanned: yes 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: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:46:29 -0000 Have a look at NicTool tool: http://www.nictool.com/ Cheers, Fred On Oct 25, 2006, at 12:07 PM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > Hello Gang, > > I have spent the last three days looking into "efficient" ways to > manage > multiple DNS server. My preferred ones are Open Source, to begin with! > > There is not so much information out there, or maybe my keywords were > simply fake. > > I have three NSes, 1 master and 2 slaves and manually managing them is > not a good idea - not efficient so far. > > I believe this list has all the information (and maybe tools) that I > need. > > Basically, I have looked at a couple DB based solutions and narrowed > down on Sauron and mysqlBind (http://openisp.net/mysqlBind/). > > 1. Sauron doesn't seem quite intuitive when it comes to dealing with > "split views" in Bind (although I hear rumors it could work). I am > still looking at it. > 2. mysqlBind (1.94) - I have not managed to compile this on my > 5.5-STABLE. I'd appreciate help from anyone who has succeeded with > compiling... > > It's obvious that I am not the only one running more than 1 Name > Server. There are those of you who run over 5, or even clusters of > NSes. > > 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 know I could make some complicated scripts to do this, but I am sure > such wheels are already rolling somewhere... no need to reinvent. > > > > > -Wash > > http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html > > DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php > > -- > +===================================================================== > =+ > |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington > > Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 > +===================================================================== > =+ > > While you don't greatly need the outside world, it's still very > reassuring to know that it's still there. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"