Best GUI tool for managing BIND 9.x

Ryan McCain Ryan.McCain at dss.state.la.us
Tue Sep 11 19:29:08 UTC 2007


> How many entries in those zones?

Around 50 each

> How many subnets? 

A single subnet

>How many people > do you plan to delegate dns control to, and how experienced are they
with DNS administration?

2 people.  And they will have full control on all the zones.  These are typical junior admin types.

NetReg  might be a little overkill for what we are looking to do but I am going to check it out along w/ the other suggestions.

Ryan



>>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at  2:14 PM, in message
<1cbe50830709111214k4b7918c3jecc90edfc4a51a85 at mail.gmail.com>, "David Nolan"
<vitroth+ at cmu.edu> wrote: 
> On 9/11/07, Ryan McCain <Ryan.McCain at dss.state.la.us> wrote:
>> BTW, We are talking about 10 zones or so here. Nothing too crazy.
>>
> 
> How many entries in those zones?  How many subnets?   How many people
> do you plan to delegate dns control to, and how experienced are they
> with DNS administration?
> 
> Carnegie Mellon's NetReg is designed as a full privilege delegation
> system, designed to allow untrained users to create their own
> registrations for new hosts, etc.  It also performs validation of
> content and prevents various common DNS mistakes.
> 
> But it does have a steep learning curve and isn't trivial to get
> setup.  (Which is why I do consulting... :)
> 
> You might want to look at the other options on this list as well:
> http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/apc/#mgmt
> 
> (Not all of those are GUI, but its a place to start...)
> 
> -David




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