Manage DNS entries

[Chris Buxton]

If you're looking for a GUI (or web GUI) interface that takes care of  
all of the tedium, applying some sanity checking along the way, and  
allowing delegation or permissions to less-experienced staff, I  
suggest you look at the following:

- Men & Mice Suite
- Carnegie Mellon's Netreg

There are some other options as well, most of them commercial. CMU's  
solution has the benefit of being free.

Chris Buxton
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On Mar 3, 2008, at 5:10 AM, James E. Pratt wrote:

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
>> Behalf Of Matus UHLAR - fantomas
>> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:03 AM
>> To: bind-users at isc.org
>> Subject: Re: Manage DNS entries
>>
>> On 02.03.08 09:55, Jonathan Petersson wrote:
>>> Overall, why the need of a UI? You've to fill in the same amount of
>>> information anyhow.
>>
>> probably to delegate DNS editing to someone without need for file
>> editing,
>> with better control over domains anyone has access to, and with some
>> basic
>> checks to avoid adding of invalid records...
>>
>>>>>> So far we've been adding and editing DNS entries by manually
>> vi'ing the
>>>>>> files and reloading named etc..
>>>>>> Is there some sort of script or front-end tool to do this
> without
>>>>>> actually opening the file for vi editing? Its a very boring and
>>>>>> repetitive job.
>>>>>> We use BIND9 on free bsd.
>>
>
>
> Not sure if anyone mentioned it but Webmin does a fairly decent job of
> managing bind, besides the fact that it will remove any comments  
> you've
> made in zone files etc :(
>
>
> http://www.webmin.com
>
> regards,
> jamie
>