[35511] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS - Bind database
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mike harrison)
Sat Mar 10 12:14:30 2001
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 12:07:46 -0500 (EST)
From: mike harrison <meuon@highertech.net>
To: David Hares <dhares@networktwo.net>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>,
Dzh-Marc <dzh-marc@fw.networktwo.net>
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> Customer Service, who cannot seem to get the concept of maintaining forward
> and reverse mapping. I run BIND 8 on Solaris, so something that runs under
> Solaris (not MickeySoft) is preferable. Both web and local shell database
> modification is definitely a plus. I'd rather not reinvent the wheel by
> programming this myself.
We do it with perl and Sybase on Linux, with a web interface (perl) for
customer service people. hardest part was all the sanity checks for stupid
data entry errors ie: adding/delete trailing periods, standardizing MX
values... a small perl script runs every hour with more sanity checks,
then dumps out new text files for named to read.
Side benefit: trusted competent customers (and yes, they do exist)
get certain records and fields available for themselves to
edit/change/delete.
Ours is to integrated into too may other things to be useful by itself,
but the DNS side was a solid weekend of coding: about 20hrs.
but made my life easier and harder (I liked hand editing text files).
