We've used MetaInfo appliances for about four years, and the software version for two years before that. We have 40 of their appliances now. Fairly inexpensive, pretty reliable too. Their tech support has been good, they do seem to care about your problem. They are good for small to medium sized environments. I'd look for a different vendor if you need more than 75 appliances.
I've heard good things about BT DiamondIP, but I don't have any direct experience with them. Several years ago we had a problem where a BIND 8 master was feeding a BIND 9 slave. An IXFR request would sometimes tickle a bug in BIND 8 where it would send back an IXFR response containing only a start and end SOA record. These two SOA records with nothing else caused the BIND 9 slave to wipe out its copy of the zone. That may have been what you saw with the bluecat appliance. Mike Mitchell -----Original Message----- From: bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Fr34k Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 2:45 PM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: DNS Appliance Our experience with blue(s)cat was not a good one. That product would sporadically lose all of our zones. Vendor blamed us (so did our angry customers). Thing was, no one was in the office. We came into work one morning to phones ringing -- no DNS. DNS because master config was empty. FTW? Might be an okay product now if you need an applicance to manage 10 zones by one person. To be fair to the vendor, this was a few years ago. Things may have improved by now (?) HTH ----- Original Message ---- From: Frank Pikelner <frank.pikel...@netcraftcommunications.com> To: j...@eagle.net Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:55:06 PM Subject: Re: DNS Appliance For a commercial appliance Bluecat Networks makes a good product. If commercial is not a requirement and djbdbs is enough, have a look at pfSense who make an excellent open source firewall appliance and now have a DNS appliance that is available. Best, Frank Pikelner On 25-Mar-09, at 11:39 AM, "John D. Vo" <j...@eagle.net> wrote: > Anyone has experience (good or bad) with a dns appliance? > > Bluecatnetwork > infoblox > infoweapons.. > > Thanks. > > ------ > > Best Regards, > > John D. Vo > Eagle Teleconferencing Services, Inc. > Network-System Administrator > j...@eagle.net > Office: (212) 200-2000 Ext. 105 > Cell: (212) 200-3016 > > --- > > > _______________________________________________ > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
