bind on bluecat's adonis 1000

[Terry Howell]

Brad -- your email sounds very much tainted with infoblox terminology. 
Gok, we own bluecats appliances and they work great for us. we tested both 
vendors and found that the infoblox devices slowed to a crawl in a large 
environment and didn't have support for key features we desired (ex. bind 
views, something to check for errors, etc). although some of Brad's comments 
may or may not apply my suggestion is that you test out both appliances and 
see for yourself. 

oh, and btw they use bind 9.2.5 and have never tried to hide it from me. 

From: Brad Knowles <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org>
> Date: Sep 6, 2005 7:02 AM 
> Subject: Re: bind on bluecat's adonis 1000
> To: Gok Buanguro <buanguro at yahoo.com>
> Cc: BIND Mailing List <bind-users at isc.org >
> 
> At 9:36 PM -0700 2005-09-05, Gok Buanguro wrote:
> 
> > Hello, does anyone know what version of BIND on the
> > latest Adonis 1000 DNS/DHCP Server appliance. Their
> > website says its 9.x .
> 
> They may not tell you. It may be that no one outside the company
> knows. But you can always use a "fingerprint" tool like fpdns to see
> what you've got.
> 
> > I'm comparing
> > adonis with other dns server on the market, figuring
> > out which is better.
> 
> The version of BIND that is shipped is only one factor to
> compare. There's a whole host of other issues to be concerned about. 
> 
> For example, how easy is it to install and integrate into your
> network? Do they have a concept of a cluster member and cluster
> master server, and multiple different groups of clusters, so that you
> can manage your entire network of appliances from one machine?
> 
> When you bring in a new box, what does it take to get it up and
> running? Can you just configure the IP and MAC addresses into the
> cluster master, then assign the box to be a particular member of a 
> particular cluster, and then just plug the thing in and it will
> handle everything else?
> 
> Do they do high-availability fail-over with a standard protocol
> like VRRP? Do they have a separate out-of-band administrative 
> interface that can be used, if you choose?
> 
> Do they have a shared distributed database for storing all data
> and meta-data, and how is that backed up? If you have hundreds of
> thousands of zones and forty or fifty appliances, how large is that 
> backup? Is it measured in tens of MB, or is it measured in tens or
> hundreds of GB?
> 
> How easy is it to upgrade the OS? Can you just point and click
> to a file with your web browser, and have that uploaded to the 
> cluster master, and then automatically distributed to all cluster
> members? Once the upgrade is in place, do they have a mechanism for
> doing rolling reboots, so that no more than one machine is down at a
> given point in time? Do they allow you to configure the rolling 
> reboot schedule?
> 
> If need be, can you configure the box from the LCD and buttons on
> the front panel, as well as the cisco-like command-line interface, as
> well as the web-based GUI? Do they give you a cross-platform 
> application that you can install on your workstation, so that you can
> quickly and easily go into the admin GUI without necessarily always
> having to fire up your web browser?
> 
> 
> There's a whole host of other questions you want to ask. These 
> are just the ones I can come up with in a couple of minutes,
> off-the-top-of-my-head.
> 
> --
> Brad Knowles, <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org>
> 
> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little 
> temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
> 
> -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania
> Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755
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