Re: bind9 graphical admin interface
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 07:01:29PM +0200, randall wrote:
> dear all,
>
> i have some troubles with my ISP, its a small time ISP who manages the
> glassfiber connection for our office building and provides several
> services for the tennants. its a Ms shop with a point and click admin
> and i must say i' m not really impressed by his knowledge, not really a
> problem since i only need the internet connection and there is little
> that can go wrong there between me and the cisco router set up there by
> a professional provider....accept for 1 thing.....PTR records...
>
> his software has a nice button that says do you want to create a PTR
> record but its simply not working.
What do dig/nslookup report?
> his customers are complaining and so am i, and i'm just about ready
> trying to learn the basic principles of DNS to help this guy out a little.
Hum, if he's using Windows for DNS, is he using the standard MS Service,
if so, has he done it properly? ()
> pretty sure i can set up a working bind for him but what i still need is
> a nice a click and go front-end so he can manage his zones properly for
> daily usage.
> there are plenty of options
> (http://www.debianadmin.com/bind-dns-server-web-interfacefrontend-or-gui-tools.html)
> for example.
The short answer is they're all as crap as each other, and don't give as
much power as $EDITOR and the configs/zonefiles.
> but i'm not really confident about recomending anything i don't use
> personally.
Quite.
> hoping somebody has pleasant experiences with any of these and can give
> a positive recomandation
About the only graphical thing that didn't make my eyes bleed/brain
melt/panic at how crap it is has been
Smbind (http://sourceforge.net/projects/smbind). YMMV.
But, the expected wisdom (i'd say) if folks don't know what they're
doing, they shouldn't be let loose with DNS.
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