BIND Based Appliances.

[Jeff Lightner]

What's with the "real world" comment?

I work in the "real world" in a corporation where we do BIND on Linux.
I gather from this list that many people run their own BIND servers on
various UNIX variants such as Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX and the plethora
of Linux distributions and assume they too work in the "real world".   

If you feel it eases your administrative burden and want to use an
appliance then more power to you.  It seems that a least of people in
this thread have not had pleasant experiences with the one appliance
that has been mentioned. 



-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of Peter Laws
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 11:40 AM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: BIND Based Appliances.

Jeff Lightner 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?

Because in the real world, it's often necessary to have "one throat to 
choke" and it's best if that throat is not *yours*.

We're in the process of migrating to BT Diamond's IPControl.  Web-based 
administration, ability to delegate (in the policy sense) DNS additions
to 
others.  Built on top of ISC BIND and ISC DHCP.  IIRC, the DB is MySQL 
(don't quote me on that).

Keeps track of subnets, etc, as well.  This will replace "a couple of
x86 
servers" with "BIND on top of" them.

HW is some OEMed x86 box, without a lot of redundancy, but we have 
multiples of them and can get a replacement NBD, which is good enough
for 
us.  They're appliances, so we don't much care what's on them (yes, they

each have BIND).

So far, integration has not been smooth.  Many disconnects between their

Prof Servs folks, their Tech Support, and (surprise) sales.

Hope to have it running Real Soon Now.  :-/



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Peter Laws / N5UWY
National Weather Center / Network Operations Center
University of Oklahoma Information Technology
plaws at ou.edu
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