Dynamic zones: some recommendations?

[Chris Boot]

Hi there,

Well I did have a look at all of this, but it seemed quite stale to  
me since the site hasn't been updated since 2004. If this is not the  
case, and you mention this has been incorporated into 9.4, then this  
is probably the way to go...

Am I right in thinking there's a single configuration entry in order  
that any number of zones be supported? How many others are using this  
in production? What database would people suggest to use as a backend?

Many thanks,
Chris

On 18 May 2006, at 18:16, Rob Butler wrote:

> 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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