Full ack ,-))

-steven

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch [mailto:swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch] Im Auftrag von Marc Balmer Gesendet: Dienstag, 8. Dezember 2009 22:04 An: Reza Kordi Cc: swinog@swinog.ch Betreff: Re: [swinog] DNS virtual Appliance

Am 08.12.2009 um 22:01 schrieb Reza Kordi:

Hi Guys

Anybody knows a good and reliable DNS server that is suitable to run on VMware and has a simple gui for management?

Any of the BSDs will do (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) and the simple gui is vi.

It rocks, we use it.

Cheers, Reza

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Am 08.12.2009 um 22:35 schrieb Reza Kordi:

At least Marc had an Idea.

Thanks anyway

Anybody tried pfDNS? I always want to try it, but never get around. It's an appliance in the style of pfSense but for (IIRC) tinydns.

Rainer

----- Original Message ----

From: Marc Balmer marc@msys.ch

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Anybody knows a good and reliable DNS server that is suitable to run on VMware and has a simple gui for management?

Any of the BSDs will do (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) and the simple gui is vi.

It rocks, we use it.

Marc, if you compare the cost of having a UNIX+vi engineer on salary and an apprentice who can do the DNS job easily through a GUI, vi does not rock any more :)

Another factor is, that that apprentice might be a girl :)

:wq Claudio

PS: to my knowledge there is no simple gui for management for good and reliable DNS server. The closest I know is powerdns that allows to use various DB backends for the lookups and there are some bad and less bad web GUIs around the net.

MacOS X Server has a GUI management... but it doesn't run in a virtual machine unless you run MacOS XServer in VMWare fusion which runs on a Mac.

Stan! *slap* :)

1) Apprentices are there to learn something, if they don't show a total desinterest they will find it cool to learn VI and BIND (or $whatever-other-dns-server). 2) It's your responsibility to turn them into good UNIX engineers! Or at least learn them something useful. Useful in terms of "they understand how DNS work" and not in terms of "they can administrate something with a GUI and as long as the GUI works everything is fine". 3) I'm not a feminist, but how does it matter here if it's a girl or not? Even if I share the oppinion of girls using VI being sexy ;)

Cheers, Mario

----- Original Message ----

From: Marc Balmer marc@msys.ch

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Anybody knows a good and reliable DNS server that is suitable to run on VMware and has a simple gui for management?

Any of the BSDs will do (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) and the simple gui is vi.

It rocks, we use it.

Marc, if you compare the cost of having a UNIX+vi engineer on salary and an apprentice who can do the DNS job easily through a GUI, vi does not rock any more :)

Another factor is, that that apprentice might be a girl :)

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Am 8.12.2009 23:00 Uhr, Steven Glogger schrieb:

Just google around for some solutions. There are plenty of solutions: e.g. powerdns with gui, webmin has some (ugly) gui, some rootshells (evil) bring DNS guis, ... Wikipedia has some additional information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_DNS_server_software

probably if you're not familiar with DNS try powerdns.

If you are not familiar with DNS, I would give this task to a company which is specialized on this.

Ihsan

Hi,

Linux/BSD and Webmin will do the job. I've got also a 30 page step for step manual somewhere for it.

And no, webmin was terrible years ago, but got really mature, at least the bind part.