DNS Management

[Keith Donaldson]

What about Meta IP from Checkpoint?  Do you have experience with this?

Simon Earthrowl wrote:

> > > I'm curious to know what folks are using to manage DNS.  I'm
> >> particularly interested in sites that manage a large number of domains
> >> and are constantly make modifications to zone files and such.  Are you
> >> using an open source solution that is working well for you?
> >
> >We have at least 3 homegrown maintenance systems in use here, one of
> >which (ITM's) I wrote from scratch, and one of which (Engineering's) was
> >originally based on the University of Utah stuff and then heavily
> >modified. Engineering seems mostly happy with their system, as are we
> >with ours. We're also evaluating/piloting a couple of the commercial
> >packages, especially with an eye towards DHCP/DNS integration. One big
> >problem we are now facing (since we've gotten a lot bigger in recent
> >years) is trying to co-ordinate the maintenance activities of widely
> >disparate organizations, using different tools, sharing the same
> >namespaces, especially reverse mappings for shared subnets. I haven't
> >seen any open-source packages *or* commercial products that really handle
> >this elegantly; most of them seem to assume that they are the center of
> >the DNS universe and Thou Shalt Have No Other...
>
> Lucent have a DHCP & DNS management package, which works with ISC's server.
> They also have their own DNS server.... Big bucks for those that want
> DHCP -> DNS synchronisation.
>
> Simon
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