Architecture Questions

[Jack Wenzinger]

Just fishing for some opinions from the experts...

I'm building a DNS platform with over a thousand tertiary subdomains.
Each subdomain will have its own DNS server that will act as secondary for 
its own subdomain.

They will be receiving their zone transfers from two main DNS servers that 
will be geographically dispersed.

Each tertiary subdomain needs to be able to handle up to 1000 addresses 
(although initial rollout will be more like 10 at each site), and around 10 
reverse zones.

Each subdomain will consist of approximately 12-13 zone files, creating 
about 12000-13000 DB files on the two main servers.

The secondary servers are NT based.

The two main servers can be either NT or Unix based (I prefer Unix).

My questions are as follows:

Has anyone else built something like this and been successful just using 
native BIND?  I'm pretty sure that NT DNS Service is out but interested in 
people's opinions.  If NT DNS is not as bad as I've been led to believe, is 
is possible to integrate BIND 8.x with NT DNS?  Does NT DNS use port 53 for 
DNS?  I've read that it uses MS Procedure calls instead.  Not sure if that's 
just for mgmt overhead or ???

What management front ends do people recommend?  I've looked at QIP (WAY TOO 
PRICEY) and MetaIP (NOT a good fit).

Actually, for what we want to do, we will probably end up building our own 
front end since we would like to use it as an asset repository system and 
use our Directory Server as the backend datastore.  One of the big 
requirements that we have is to have an asset provisioner that will allocate 
an IP address on a particular zone at a particular subdomain with a rules 
based device naming scheme (yikes).

Any thoughts would be appreciated.


Judy




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