RE: bind over MySQL
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ed neville [mailto:Edward@UKplc.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 3:10 AM
> To: Shane Chrisp; debian-isp@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: bind over MySQL
>
> Shane Chrisp wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 19:34 +0100, Olivier Cant wrote:
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> >> Hi list
> >>
> >> We are setting up a bind9 configuration interface (using PHP) for
> >> internal use. We have a few zones under the bind9 server. As the
> >> zone have to be edited very often and the interface should not edit
> >> zone files directly for security reasons, I'm looking for a way for
> >> bind9 to lookup the zone information directly in an SQL DB (MySQL
> >> preferably). I don't if there if bind is SQL aware or not.
> >>
> >> Do any of you have any experience with this kind of problem ?
> >>
> >> If it cannot be done we will be writing system script (and cron them)
> >> to rebuid the zone files from a database.
> >>
> >> Any idea ?
> >>
> >> Any GPL work done on this we could reuse ?
> >
> > If your not worried about keeping Bind, have a look at MyDNS.
> > I have been running it for about 2 years and one server has
> > just served its 10 million'th query. It doesnt have all the
> > features that Bind has, but run under daemontools it has
> > worked flawlessly for us here and it comes with a php frontend.
> >
> > There are also scripts to such the existing bind files into mysql.
> >
> > Shane
>
> It's not hard to convert tiny->bind, but it's hard going the other way.
> It's a lot better to keep with tiny though.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Ed
We use tinydns and nictool/mysql to manage it with much less problems than
using bind and other apps.
Regards,
Dee
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