BIND/Control Panel/FreeBSD

Juan Carlos Sanchez-Leanos jcsl at ifisica.uaslp.mx
Tue Nov 15 20:57:02 UTC 2016


Thank you very much for sharing you experience.

Sincerely, JCSL

Juan Carlos Sanchez-Leanos
Ingeniero Electronico
Tecnico Academico "B"
Computo, IF-UASLP, Mexico.

On Tue, 15 Nov 2016, Ryan Pavely wrote:

> My default business os of choice is also FreeBSD.  However many moons ago we 
> came to the determination that bind on FreeBSD had issues.  Memory issues. 
> Lockups.  Strange goings on.  Mostly when the process was close to consuming 
> all available ram.  We switch to Linux.  Our 3 name servers are the only 
> Linux boxes in our entire enterprise.  Now I am not going to suggest steering 
> clear as my last 'production' 'bsd' 'nameserver' was well over 10 years ago. 
> I'm confident things have improved.  Just keep my experience in mind.
>
>
>
>  Ryan Pavely
>   Cologix
>   http://www.cologix.com/
>
> On 11/14/2016 11:06 PM, John W. Blue wrote:
>> JCSL,
>> 
>> Personally, my default choice for an OS is always FreeBSD first but let's 
>> be pragmatic.  BSD 10.x changed drastically in many ways under the hood and 
>> control panel authors found the cost to benefit ratio too high to keep 
>> supporting FreeBSD.  Assuming there is a really good reason why the choice 
>> for cPanel was made (support staff's knowledge/skill/ability of the 
>> software) is the choice of an OS that much of a project blocker?
>> 
>> When the hosting software breaks, is your team able to handle *anything* 
>> that come up?  Especially if the software was hacked and slogged into 
>> place?
>> 
>> The laws of unintended consequences have a very bad habit of asserting 
>> themselves at the least opportune time.  Good project and change management 
>> considerations in the beginning will go a long ways in preventing pain and 
>> suffering should the worst happen.
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bind-users [mailto:bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of 
>> Juan Carlos Sanchez-Leanos
>> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2016 7:03 PM
>> To: bind-users at lists.isc.org
>> Subject: BIND/Control Panel/FreeBSD
>> 
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> We are planning to run BIND on a FreeBSD server. We planned to use CPANEL 
>> but is no longer available for FreeBSD. Do you have any other 
>> recommendation?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> JCSL
>> 
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