[CentOS] DNS Server Recommendations

Mon Aug 17 06:20:06 UTC 2009
Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>

Chuck wrote:
>
> 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.
Heh, the shadow master setup.

>
> Of course bind is the 800lb gorilla in the DNS world... don't even 
> think about putting DNS on windows.
ROTFL.

Yes, the 800 pound TURTLE. Old and slow.

>
> 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.
Too bad no one has made rpms for djbdns, daemontools and tools to manage 
tinydns data with a sql backend and a nice web frontend.


>
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank <hugh at forsoft.com 
> <mailto: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
>     <http://www.forward-software.com>
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