Bind9 Managment Tools

[Morris Seals]

Yes, there is a great product for handling this, and it
is called:  DNS Boss, Web site- http://www.dnsboss.com
and it should easily handle 450 zones.  It has a 
converter, so you don't have to type everything in,
and it will massively reduce the typing involved.
For example lets say you wanted to create entries
for a forward map, a reverse map, and an entry in
your BIND 9 named.conf, and you wanted to increment
your serial numbers.  All you would do, is bring
up the DNS Boss GUI, and click "Load DNS domain" for
your domain if you created it already, and then
click "Edit hosts" and type-

129.15.155.200    www

and then, "Update this domain".  The forward
map and the reverse map, get created automatically,
and your version of your BIND 9 named.conf gets
recreated, and the necessary serial numbers get 
incremented, and named gets restarted.  It is very
easy to use.

     There is a fantastic failover/replication
mechanism built into it for those running
multiple DNS servers.  You can use this same
mechanism for with a hidden staging server to do
your updates on.  If DNS Boss detects zero errors
in the restart of your named, then the updates
get pushed.  If not, they don't get pushed to your
productions servers.  This is a great thing to
have if you are running 450 domains, and you don't
want to take them all down accidently.  Also, there
is a Web UI with a locking mechanism so you can 
have multiple admins being productive at the same 
time.
 
     Let me know if you have any questions.

-Morris Seals
 http://www.dnsboss.com
 DNS Boss Inc.
 720.339.1147


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sjk <sjk at panda.dredel.com> wrote in message news:<bll29b$2jg0$1 at sf1.isc.org>...
> I'm just hoping someone has some opinions here. We run multiple servers
> utilizing bind 9 and host around 450 domain names. Currently we have scripts
> to add zones to the named.conf and generate a zone template file -- we then
> just edit the records by hand to make changes. I would like to move our 
> zone management to something more user freindly, so I can have our less
> experienced support people change records and add zones. I know there are some
> html/myslq management systems out there, but am not sure how well they
> actually work in production.
> 
> Does anyone have any experience with these, good or bad? Just looking
> for direction right now.
> 
> TIA -- sjk