BIND Based Appliances.

[Larry Fahnoe]

I don't know about the ISC authorization part of your question, but
Infoblox's DNSone is based upon bind and works very well.  As an
appliance, it offers out of the box HA as well as a distributed
database shared by both bind and ISC dhcpd.  The appliances and
database can be configured in a distributed grid to build a scalable
DNS, DHCP, and IP management environment for entities of varying
sizes.  It can also be used as a primary with stock bind secondaries
if you do not wish to purchase additional appliances (this does
require a bit more work on your part, but is of course less
expensive).  The combined database underneath bind and dhcpd make the
appliance ideally suited to do IP management tasks, and the IP Address
Management component provide a very nice tool to manage networks and
their address ranges.  The appliance has a decent GUI as well as a
full featured API for you customizations.  We've been using DNSone for
a few years and are quite pleased with it.

As far as Josh's comments about his experience, I would partially
agree and partially disagree.  We worked with Infoblox quite a while
before I was comfortable with the data import process.  I opened
several cases with Infoblox during that time to get things fixed or
improved.  Some of the fruits of our work there have shown up in their
current java import tool.  I consider myself a reasonably seasoned
bind user (after 20+ years, I ought to have learned something!), but
at this point I would have no hesitation in giving a strong
endorsement to the Infoblox appliances.  Not unlike bind itself, you
have to spend a little time learning to think like it does, but once
you do so, the appliance is quite decent to use.  As far as the
Infoblox API is concerned, yes, it has been evolving over the years,
and things do change from time to time.  In fact I have only had one
of my scripts break as a result of an upgrade over the years and this
was due to them changing their permissions model.  If you want to use
the API, look at the examples provided and plan to spend some time
working with it.

--Larry

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Josh Smith <juicewvu at gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe the infoblox appliances are bind based however After
> administering them for over a year I have to say steer clear of them.
> They definitely make dns easy enough that anyone can do it at the
> expense of making it impossible for someone who knows what they are
> doing being able to automate anything.  They do have a perl API but
> its aweful.
>
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> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
>> If you're a Linux Addict why not just buy a couple of x86 servers and
>> install Linux with BIND on top of it?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
>> Behalf Of Linux Addict
>> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 9:37 AM
>> To: bind-users at isc.org
>> Subject: BIND Based Appliances.
>>
>> Folks, I am looking to re-architecture our NS Infrastructure. Can you
>> guys suggest me if there are any Bind-Based Appliances available and
>> authorized by ISC itself?
>>
>> Thanks, LA
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