Enterprise DNS/DHCP solutions...

Johnny Fribert Lauridsen jlaurids at cisco.com
Tue May 16 19:54:23 UTC 2000


Ross,
I can assure you that Cisco Network Registrar still is a product.  In fact, I 'manage' a Danish
user-group-mailing-list thingy for just this product.
I will answer you off-line list, as I do not think it is appropriate to append specific commercial product info here.
Regards,
Johnny 

At 12:27 16/05/2000 -0700, parker at bctm.com wrote:
>Hi, folks,
>
>We're looking at implementing an enterprise DDNS/DHCP package. Current
>considerations include things like:
>
>- Nortel NetID
>- Lucent QIP
>- Checkpoint MetaIP
>- Cisco Network Registrar (is this even offered anymore? Can't find it
>   in their catalogue)
>- anything else?
>
>Issues we have are two sites geographically far apart separated by a
>high speed but high latency wan connection. We have roughly
>1,500 addresses at each site, 800 or 900 or so on DHCP at each site.
>Features we think we need are:
>
>- single point control for both sites, both for DNS and DHCP management
>- dynamic DNS updates from DHCP servers
>- single DNS name space shared by both sites
>- support for different DHCP address ranges at each site
>- ability to survive a WAN outage with full DHCP/DDNS support
>   continuing to operate - I presume this means a master/slave DDNS
>   configuration will not work
>- FULL support for Windows 2000 - we will not be running the Win 2k
>   native DNS services
>- support for standard Bind would be great.
>- platform support for Solaris 2.6, 2.7, etc. (this'll run on Sun boxes)
>
>I've seen one or two notes regarding NetID on this list, responses seem
>positive.
>
>I'd really appreciate hearing from people who have used any of the above
>applications, or have done a similar evaluation. We hope to implement
>something within 2 months, perhaps sooner.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Ross
>-- 
>Ross Parker            |      UNIX Sys Admin, Perl and C,
>Systems/Network Admin  |        Networking and security
>Telus Mobility         |
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>parker at bctm.com        | highly selective about who it makes friends WITH!
>




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