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Re: More on the future LDAP admin gui in Debian Edu



Le Friday 22 October 2010 16:38:13 Petter Reinholdtsen, vous avez écrit :
> [Andreas B. Mundt]

Hello,

[]
> > Main difference to our current setup: Bind instead of powerDNS.
>
> Actually, we can continue to use powerDNS if we adjust GOsa to update
> an extra attribute in the DNS tree.  See
> <URL:http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ldap.gosa/506> for the
> details.

i could look at it but we discussed about a global schema for bind and 
powerdns, is this done already ?

> > I think the decision we have to take is: Do we want to continue
> > using powerDNS (which means we cannot use the GOsa packages because
> > they use bind, so we have to find a solution, hack something or
> > whatever...) or can we switch to bind which should make most (if not
> > all) of the tools we need available in the squeeze repositories. So
> > if there are no grave arguments against bind I think that's the
> > easier way to go.
>
> I believe we want to continue to use a DNS server that look up
> information directly in LDAP, to ensure that DNS changes done in LDAP
> take effect imediately.  All the bind based solutions I have seen so
> far uses regular exports from LDAP to files bind understands, causing
> a delay until changes show up in DNS.  Because of this, I believe we
> are better off by keeping PowerDNS.  And thus I believe a third option
> - change GOsa to work with PowerDNS - is the best one.

i understand your reason well i could take the actual dns plugin and look 
if we can change it to manage powerdns

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