I'm the sysadmin of a rapidly growing network. There are lots and lots of system and network monitoring and maintenance tools that I need to find and use. (Commercial or otherwise I don't care... they just need to work and make my life easier! :) Manual maintenance of the /var/named DNS database is one issue that is rapidly turning into a big headache. I've found a few tools out there that can do things like automatically generate reverse lookup files from the forward lookup files (heck, I've written some perl to do the same sort of things). But nothing that is *really* substantial. The ideal way to go with managing a large DNS database must surely be by using a real database server like mysql (or whatever). And rather than build this myself, surely somebody has done this already. I've been looking around such a beast, but with no luck so far. The actual database design would be quite trivial, it just needs a good front-end (perhaps something like php3) to use it. Add new hostnames, zone files, whatever, and have all the "sanity checking" and reverse entries done for you. Then from the database, the config files could be re-written as necessary. I could even enable access control, with levels of access for doing certain things (eg, allowing commerical clients using our IP space to edit their own DNS forward and reverse lookup entries). Anybody got any pointers to where I might find such a beast? (BTW: rh6.1, bind 8.2.2P3). Thanks. Cheers Tony -=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=- Tony Nugent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Systems Administrator GrowZone OnLine (a project of) GrowZone Development Network POBox 475 Toowoomba Oueensland Australia 4350 Ph: 07 4637 8322 -=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=- -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
