Yellowdog and running a BIND/DNS Server

[Mark Guertin]

Here's my quick take on it, having run with both interfaces ...

If you have a small amount of domains to manage and a low number of  
entries then the OSX interface is fine.  It does some nice things for  
you (like automatic reverse lookup entries, etc), but you do a LOT of  
mouse clicking and hitting save buttons.

if you have a larger number of things to manage and want to interface  
with other things ... for example I had a small script that took  
about 200 entries from a database and exported them to config files  
directly for ease of management... then doing things by hand is  
preferable (in my eyes).  Much less work chasing things down if you  
do it in one spot and then send it out 'to the world' so to speak.

So there is no real 'best' way to do it.  In the end if you're  
comfortable with CLI and *nix, and especially BIND then YDL is  
great.  If you're a newbie to managing this sort of stuff then you  
have a learning curve ahead of you either way you look at it, and be  
prepared to spend time reading and being frustrated ;)  They both  
have their oddities and things to get used to before you are  
comfortable with them.

In the end the real BIND/*nix experience is more helpful IMHO, as  
it's portable.  The OSX stuff is proprietary and can be changed as  
early as the next OS revision and then you learn the interface all  
over again (kind of, but you can see the point).

Mark


On 25-May-05, at 5:13 PM, Eric Dunbar wrote:

>> On Wednesday 25 May 2005 13:43, Eric Dunbar wrote:
>>
>>> [Reply is OT]
>>>
>>> Anyway, here's the off-topic thought (may or may not apply to your
>>> situation).
>>>
>>> Oftentimes orgs try to "re-use" old hardware by running Linux/BSD to
>>> save a bit of cash. When you consider the expense of salaries  
>>> related
>>> to setting up the "free" software I suspect it would've often been

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