installing openreg on a remote server

[Joe Abley]

On 6-May-2007, at 20:31, Luis Diego Espinoza wrote:

> Problems in openreg:
> - How can I delegate a zone using EPP?  In the setup this does using
> SQL not EPP
>
> Francisco Obispo from NIC Venezuela has been working with openreg by
> more than 2 years trying to put it on production and he tell that
> this version is broken.  Now they have it in production environment
> but with a lot of work.
>
> I going to evaluate this software and by documentation could be easy
> to run.
> http://fred.nic.cz/

OpenReg was released as a work-in-progress when ISC's internal  
funding for OpenReg development dried up. It is not a complete system  
ready to drop in to any registry operator's network. It definitely  
has bugs.

I am aware of several organisations who have either spent time fixing  
OpenReg so that it is suitable for their purposes, or who have taken  
parts of OpenReg (e.g. the schema) and have used it as part of  
otherwise disconnected projects. I think it is fair to say that there  
are many ccTLD registries who have benefited from the availability of  
the OpenReg source code.

However, you should probably not expect OpenReg to work for you  
unless you have developer time available to work on it. Deciding  
whether OpenReg is an appropriate choice for you is something that  
can definitely be done on this mailing list; complaining that OpenReg  
doesn't work is likely to be less productive, however.


Joe