BIND vs DNS Commander

Jim Reid jim at rfc1035.com
Sun Apr 15 12:24:11 UTC 2001


>>>>> "Nate" == Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> writes:

    Nate> If they MUST have a GUI, get someone out to demo Lucent's
    Nate> QIP for you -- but expect quite a bit of work and MONEY to
    Nate> get it up and running.

    Nate> If you want more information about my company's recent
    Nate> evaluation process (and why we finally decided a "roll your
    Nate> own" solution fit our needs best)

So you claim QIP is/was impressive yet you decided to use your own DNS
administration solution. I see. Does anyone else spot the contradiction?

The fact that QIP "failed to fit your needs" pretty much tells its own
story. You could make the same complaint of just about any of these
so-called DNS administration tools, not only QIP. Anybody can come up
with a GUI for DNS administration. That's trivial: a simple matter of
programming. The hard part is providing a tool that supports the
procedures and business processes surounding an organisation's DNS
administration. By itself a point and click interface is barely an
improvement on editing zone and config files by hand. I know of quite
a few companies who have bought these solutions and found their
wallets are a lot lighter and they still have the same DNS problems
that they had before. The only difference is they now have a cute GUI
for pointing and clicking at things.


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