"QIP" - product as an assistant for IP-Management : "good or not" ?!?

[Ian Watts]

I just set up a demo version of QIP on a Solaris box.  It appears to be a
powerful but cumbersome tool.  It would be most useful, I think, for
managing a distributed corporate network with a combination of DNS and
DHCP.

I personally hate it and would rather use my own tools for all of my DNS
and IP management needs.  Another important consideration is that the QIP
license is based on the number of IP addresses you use and costs several
dollars per IP address. 

Speaking of "Stone Age" and "State of the Art", Perl is the way of the
future!  Although due for a new release soon, QIP is based on BIND 8.1.2
and is not yet supported on Solaris 8.

-- Ian

On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Claus van de Vlierd wrote:

> 
> Hello ,
> 
> the Lucent Company  is selling a product called "QIP"  (<<Qualified
> IP>>  ?!?) which is basically
> a Sybase - Database on which one holds all the information for
> Nameserving
> (the "A" , "PTR" , "CNAME" , "MX" - Records  ;  the "retry" and
> "refresh" - timers and so on).
> 
> Additionally you have a "QIP" - Namedaemon (usually UNIX-based)  and a
> special daemon
> which regularly updates the Zonefiles on the Nameserver according to the
> 
> new entries in the
> Database and than restarts the "QIP" -Namedaemon .
> 
> Has anybody any experience concerning this product ?!
> 
> (I personally prefer the "classic tools" for maintaining our Nameserver
> :
>    -  some PERL-Scripts for entering /changing /deleting entries in the
> Zone - Files,
>    -  some PERL - Scripts for automtically restart the Namedaemon and
> then scanning
>       the "syslog" - File for errors that may have resulted from any of
> the new entries ..
> 
>    But maybe I am acting in Stone-Age --  what is the "State of the Art"
> 
> - Method nowadays
>    to handle this dull "IP-Management-Business" ?!
>    Are there Software Products beside this Lucent - QIP ?! )
> 
>   Any hint would be appreciated !
> 
> thanx and regards :
> 
>  Claus van de Vlierd
> 
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