Suggestions for a distributed DNS zone hosting solution I'm designing

Chris Buxton clists at buxtonfamily.us
Wed Mar 7 15:09:23 UTC 2018


I work for BlueCat, a competitor to Infoblox. Our solution gives you BIND on Linux, with root access to the servers when you need it, as well as a robust management and monitoring solution. Our servers can be deployed in cloud and hosted environments.

That said, you don’t need a commercial product to do what you’ve described. BIND on Linux will do everything you’ve described, if properly set up. You could set up some simple scripting to give you secure DDNS so that you can update the data from anywhere.

I hope that helps.
Chris Buxton

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> On Mar 6, 2018, at 10:10 PM, Latitude <arlendelcastillo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I would like to solicit constructive feedback in regards to a distributed DNS
> zone hosting proof of concept I'd like to design and establish. 
> 
> I must deploy a DNS system with the following requirements:
> - single master server, multiple slave servers
> - minimal time for name resolving for Americas, Europe and Asia
> - up to millions records in a domain zone
> - changes propagate in real time (master -> slaves), 2 sec max delay
> - automatic slave data re-syncing on master link restore after disconnect
> - API for zone records manipulation (insert, update, delete)
> 
> So far I am considering using (free) DC/OS on Amazon Web Services with the
> latest version of BIND containerized using docker on a Linux or Unix OS. Dyn
> and Infoblox are also on my list of items to research but I have never used
> either and I enjoy working with BIND on Linux. After all this is the BIND
> Users group, but I would be interested to know if someone can make a case
> for using Dyn or Infoblox in this case. 
> 
> Considerations/questions I have about this deployment for this Bind-Users
> forum are:
> 
> 1. How can I examine DNS resolution times using this platform (or other
> platforms to compare with) in different geographic areas of the world
> without first deploying it? I will need to have benchmark data to test
> against to verify I am getting the fastest speeds possible on name
> resolutions. 
> 
> 2. How to handle millions of records in a DNS zone, and how common is it to
> have millions of records in a DNS zone?
> 
> 3. What API solutions for DNS zone edits currently exist or should I be
> lookin into?
> 
> I will research more in the next day but so far I know I can manually
> configure named.conf to propagate zone changes to slave servers rapidly
> (aiming for 2 seconds or less) using NOTIFY messages and zone transfers, and
> also configure slave servers to automatically re-synch zone data with the
> master server upon reestablishing a connection. That should satisfy two of
> my requirements above. 
> 
> Any additional advice, hints, or tips for my proof of concept would be
> greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance. This will be a very fun project to
> design and hopefully implement. 
> 
> 
> 
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