DNS and SQL

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> Jason Burton wrote:
> 
> >Anyone know of a way to make Win2k DNS server or DNS service in general ODBC
> >or data driven rather than zone file based?
> >
> Well, BIND has traditionally loaded its zone data from files, but there 
> are commercial products built on top of BIND (Lucent's QIP and Nortel's 
> NetID, for instance), that use a RDBMS backend instead. With BIND 9, 
> there are hooks that allow one to use any database one wishes as a 
> backend, assuming it meets certain requirements.
> 
> For ad-hoc querying, I would think the resolver library interface is 
> much more lightweight than ODBC etc.
> 
>                                                                         
>                                                 - Kevin

	Bind 9 also contains database interfaces for various backends
	in contrib/sdb.  You could use these as a model if you don't
	find a appropriate one.

	Mark
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