Bind Front End Util

[David Nolan]

--On Monday, May 01, 2006 19:32:49 -0400 Robert Spangler 
<bms at zoominternet.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for something like Men&Mice for Linux.  Is there anything out
> there like this?
>


I hate to keep parrotting the same answer everytime a question like this 
comes up, but here I go again...

Your question is pretty light on details, so its hard to recommend a
solution.  i.e. are you dealing with a couple zones, or a couple hundred?
Are you dealing with a few dozen records, or several thousand?  Do you need
a way to delegate zone management to multiple people, or will a single
admin be responsible for changes?  Are you trying to mix static & dynamic
updates in a single zone?  (Thats hard at best, and a really bad idea at
worst...)

Do a search in freshmeat.net for DNS and you'll find quite a few tools for
performing DNS management.  Which one you need depends on the details of
your situation.

If your scale tends towards the larger end of the ranges I gave above, I
recommend taking a look at Carnegie Mellon's NetReg(*), which you can find 
in freshmeat or at http://www.net.cmu.edu/netreg.  (Disclaimer: I'm the
current primary developer, and I also offer installation, customization and
support contracts on the side.)

It handles both static servers and dynamic servers (currently no mixing on
a single server), and scales very well to large sites.  At Carnegie Mellon
we have over 400 zones (not counting the reverses), and over 50K records in
those zones.

(NetReg also maintains DHCP configurations, and has a SOAP API for advanced
integration with other systems.)

*: Not to be confused with Southwestern University's NetReg, which is a
completely different system with similar purpose, developed in parallel
around the same time.  I believe its not as full featured with respect to 
DNS management.


-David Nolan
 Network Software Designer
 Computing Services
 Carnegie Mellon University