QIP?

[Chris Pile]

Has anyone been using QIP for basic/advanced IP
management/allocation/assignments?  Rather than mainly for DNS/DHCP, I
wondered how the IP functionality works.  e.g.  How good is it at
helping you manage a couple of /16 blocks, keeping track of IP
allocation down to the last /32?  I've been looking at FreeIPdb, but
wondered how QIP compares.


Thanks,
Chris.



"Scott S. Bertilson" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:06:40PM -0800, Ed Franks wrote:
> >
> > Our DNS was moved from BIND to a product referred to as "QIP".
> > A websearch yields Lucent's VitalQIP as a DNS, DHCP, etc. and
> > much hyperbole from the vendor.
> >
> > What is the opinion of the sages in this ng of this product?  How
> > does it compare with BIND?
> 
>   We have been running QIP for over 2 years now.  It has
> given us very effective mechanisms to allow departmental
> network administrators to make changes to the parts of
> our DNS which they manage.
>   There is one fundamental design conflict with BIND
> however: if you are allowing dynamic DNS updates, BIND
> and QIP each maintain a repository of DNS information
> which they consider canonical.  There currently exists
> no mechanism by which they can be brought into sync
> except brute force (QIP generates flat files and BIND
> is forced to load them on the assumption that QIP is
> the correct).  This brute force approach has some
> problems however because BIND believes it owns the
> flat files when dynamic updates are being performed
> and under some circumstances it will overwrite the
> zone file when told to reload, tossing the files
> generated by QIP.  It seems to me that this is only
> likely to get to be a bigger problem as integration
> with Win2k/AD brings more dynamic updates.
>                                 Scott