about 1 year
ago
mysqlBind:
mysqlBind works for me
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Dylan Garmendia
I used to spend hours editing perl scripts and worse editing BIND configuration and zone db files by hand...all day.
Now I run a DNS ASP for thousands of zones on a cluster of 5 servers. And I almost never have to login to any of them.
Everything is done via web interfaces, except for the cluster agents that once installed do all the actual DNS/BIND configuration work.
The backend is great. And if you like to write
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your own plugins in C, the modular programming file layout allows it to be done easily. It is very developer oriented based directly on the underlying schema.
On the other hand the standard easy to use admin and end-user org interfaces are more limited (a good thing actually), that run off of html templates (provided via the backend schema) work fine for me and I was able to customize them very quickly.
The install was prety quick and I like the fact that the DNS configuration is static and if my mySQL replication cluster has to be brought down for any reason BIND keeps right on running.
It has some confusing and hidden links everywhere. The glossary help system is a little off and in some cases internally inconsistent but it can be easily fixed at the glossary backend tab. The admin interface needs better role and permission level controls I think. And should allow to lock-in a company and or contact for easier searching.
In conclusion a lot of work has gone into a robust DNS BIND 9 cluster manager that only has competition from the likes of Nominum and Mice&Men (both very costly proprietary solutions.) [Less]
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9 months
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by
Dylan Garmendia
Too bad Zigo and QOS have started a flame war here and on freshmeat. It is obvious that QOS is this lunatic Spanish guy called Yosu, that we refused to deal with (of course he can use our software (Yosu: It is on a public svn server as you can easily confirm and has been for a long time, you don't need to chat or call us) and fork it -whatever dude. But nowhere in the GPL says we have chat with jerks for hours -that we think are DTC "spies.") And
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of course then things started getting ugly. Yosu is net-stalking our GPL software, and even us personally. We are not scared of you, nut-cases. And even if you people develop good software, how great could it ever be if you have to stoop to such levels. All this started way back when Zigo went ballistic over some marketing hype. Calling us names and even recommending that we commit suicide by hanging. Zigo must really be a character! lol
I both contribute to and use mysqlBind2/iDNS at my work. Big deal if I reviewed it positively. Nothing wrong with that numbskulls. What is really cool is that now we have even more proof that Zigo and Yosu are very close at some level. Someday the truth will come out. May the best people win!
If this post is considered inflammatory and an ad hominem attack please remove it (and sorry Ohloh guys/gals but this is just defense) along with the moronic attack post by QOS. [Less]
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