I recommend a highly secured master that is not queried by any clients (preferably in a network/vlan your clients can't even access)... then configure one-way zone transfers to 2 or more slave servers which you configure your clients to point to. Maintain your zone files in rcs of some sort... For IP control/delegation and DNS control/delegation I recommend IP Plan. Of course bind is the 800lb gorilla in the DNS world... don't even think about putting DNS on windows. I don't recommend any front ends being that a few hours well spent reading the docs and man pages will make you a dns expert in no time. Bind is very easy to learn and shouldn't take longer than an afternoon at best. On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank <hugh at forsoft.com>wrote: > Hi All: > > I am looking for some possible recommendations on the handling of our > internal DNS services. First some background... > > Until recently our entire network was located within a single facility > with internal DNS services provided by our CentOS 4.7 (using BIND). > While I had problems with DHCP/DNS communications it was basically > working. > > At the beginning of the month we moved the production servers (a couple > of RHEL5.3 boxes with a Windows 2008 server) to a new facility connected to > the old facility via a VPN. We are still running with our DevSys as > the DNS server but I would like to make the two locations at least > partially independent. I have been doing some research (probably > enough to be really dangerous to myself<g>) and it looks like I need > to setup a master/slave setup. > > Here are my questions... > > 1. Is the BIND master/slave the appropriate approach? > > 2. Can I have each subnet be a master for itself and a slave for the > other subnet? > > 3. Any pointers to applicable docs/examples? > > 4. Can you recommend a "front end" for BIND (we have webmin installed > but I have yet to start working with it)? > > Any and all thoughts, suggestions, criticisms gladly accepted. > > TIA > > Regards, Hugh > > -- > Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090816/d582201e/attachment-0004.html>