DNS Management

[GeekGrrl]

Which version of BIND does QIP 5.x work with, though? The documentation on
Lucent's website lists that QIP 5.x is BIND 8.1.2 compliant, but I am very
much interested in BIND 8.2.2P5 compliance, and compliance with all
future versions of BIND in a timely manner. 

How is it that QIP 5.x works? It is my understanding that many of these
products translate the database- or LDAP-stored data to records BIND can
understand through a proprietary 'nameserver' and in that way dynamically
updates the BIND nameserver(s). Here is where vendor software such as QIP
can potentially break for future versions of BIND and omit newly
integrated record types. 

How quickly does Lucent respond to changes in BIND with patchs, assuming
the above style of operation? This is more a question for Lucent, but if
any of you have experience with them, I would like to hear about it.

On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Jeff Robinson wrote: >
Jim,
> > > QIP 5.x uses RFC 2136 compliant DDNS to update its DNS servers from
> DHCP servers.
> 
> The proprietary protocol is used from the DHCP service to update the
> back-end Sybase or Oracle database.
> 
> 
> QIP 5.x works just fine with ISC's BIND.
>