bind management using snmp

[mayer at gis.net]

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> Jim, thanks for the info.
> Are you aware if the current implementation of ISC BIND version 9.3
> supports the DNS MIB extensions? If supported, what mechanism BIND
> uses to expose the mibs to an SNMP agent (I was thinking of some sort
> of libraries or API that SNMP agent will use). I been looking for this
> info in the net but couldn't find any.
> 

Didn't you read Jim's response before you asked? The answer is
everywhere
in his response. Read the last sentence in particular.

Danny

> Thanks,
> Ronnel
> 
> Jim Reid wrote:
> 
> > On Apr 7, 2005, at 10:55, Ronnel P. Maglasang wrote:
> >
> >> Has anyone here tried to integrate ISC Bind with an SNMP agent
> (e.g. >> net-snmp)? I'd like to manage bind in some ways using SNMP,
> maybe >> extending SNMP to support bind objects. Are there documents
> available >> describing this integration?
> >
> >
> > RFC3197 has good advice for anyone planning a journey down this 
> > particular road. The MIBs for DNS servers and resolvers have been 
> > deprecated. 10-12 years ago code would probably have been written
> > for  those now obsolete MIBs, perhaps just for test purposes.
> > However I  doubt that code exists today or got any significant
> deployment. >
> > I suppose the now obsolete RFCs documenting those MIBs might be a 
> > starting point. Though there doesn't seem much point resurrecting 
> > something that died a long time ago. BTW, those MIBs were derived
> > from  the internals of BIND4. They're unlikely to be relevant for
> > current  DNS implementations. Unless of course you're still running
> > prehistoric  BIND4 code.
> >