Dynamic zones: some recommendations?

[Rob Butler]

Take a look at bind-dlz.sf.net.  It has been
integrated into bind 9.4's core as well.

--- Chris Boot <bootc at bootc.net> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I've been working on the design of a web-based
> server control panel,  
> and now I'm working on the BIND/DNS Zones portion of
> the design. It  
> strikes me that there are plenty of options that I
> could use to allow  
> users to alter zones via the web. What I'm looking
> for are  
> suggestions or recommendations as to what method
> might be best to use  
> in the current environment. The options I've found
> so far are:
> 
> Plain old zone files
> - Easy, extremely stable
> - Can use lots of memory for lots of zones
> - Could get out of sync with the backing database
> - File permissions could get finicky
> 
> RDBMS-backed (MySQL or PostgreSQL)
> - Immediate zone updates
> - Very small memory footprint
> - Requires recompiling BIND
> - Still requires named.conf updates for
> adding/removing zones
> - Wildcards appear not to be supported without
> hacking at the SDB  
> backend
> 
> LDAP-backed
> - As for RDBMS  plus:
> - Somewhat inflexible schema that only allows a
> single TTL per label,  
> as opposed to allowing one to have a separate TTL
> for every record
> 
> What do people use? Did I misunderstand any of the
> options? Any hints  
> and tips?
> 
> I'm particularly wondering what people like DynDNS
> and other large  
> DNS hosting outfits do to run their servers...
> 
> Many thanks,
> Chris
> 
> -- 
> Chris Boot
> bootc at bootc.net
> http://www.bootc.net/
> 
> 
> 
> 


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