James Shupe <jsh...@osre.org> writes:

> I can't speak for anycast DNS deployments, but I use OSPF heavily in
> large production environments and have had a great experiences with it.
>

This is very nice to know, thank you.

>> - what is your opinion about using a latest version of BIND from ISC
>>   instead of the BIND distribution coming with OpenBSD?
>> 
> The BIND distribution included in the base install is fine.
>

Unless you happen to need a feature that is available only in a later
version of BIND. The reason I asked is because I saw no relevant
package in ports.

>> - would you consider Java support on OpenBSD "production quality"? Seems
>>   irrelevant but we might utilize some Java tools for
>>   measurement/statistics 
>> 
> I've never used it, but I wouldn't even bother because there are no
> native Java builds available for OpenBSD, and thus it's going to be
> untested and completely unsupported. From the sounds of it, you need to
> rethink your monitoring strategy and consider using SNMP and a central
> statistics server running the software of your choice.
>

OK, this was an understatement from my behalf. What I have in mind is
more ambitious than just monitoring/alerting. For moniting and graphs, our
cacti/nagios solution will do just fine. But storing and analysing DNS
query data is a whole different story...

Regards,

Kostas

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