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Re: DNS and DHCP appliances
From: "Michael Benedetto" <michael () amnh org>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 11:50:49 -0500 (EST)
Luis: We've been using the Bluecat Adonis appliances for over a year. Without a doubt it has been one of the better purchases we've made. The management client can keep the forward and reverse zones synched automatically. We've also benefited from the error checking functionality, which helped us find a ridiculous number of errors in our old BIND config (we were able to port it into the Adonis) and helps us spot new ones we create before we send the config out to the servers. I think Bluecat suffers more than anything from a serious lack of publicity. I looked at both the Adonis and the Infoblox offerings, but had I not found a Network Computing article comparing various DNS appliances from a few years back I probably would never have looked at the Adonis. Infoblox is definately more aggressive in their marketing and making a big deal of having Cricket Liu on staff (which is only a plus IMHO if Cricket is sent by INfoblox to personally manage my DNS). Try them both. It's definately worth the time. -Mike
Hello, Las week I have been in a Infoblox presentation, and I think this products are like an beta implementation of a Bind 9 and DHCP from ISC precompiled in a propietary Linux distribution. One of the major issues that I could see is that this appliance dont keep consistency between the zones and the reverse zones, it should be done by the administrator; I think this is a MUST in an appliance for that price (M$ DNS for example, has that characteristic, some frontends for Bind too). Have you probe these appliances? Which other appliances like this (DNS/DHCP) would you recomend? Regards.
Current thread:
- DNS and DHCP appliances Luis Fernandez (Nov 07)
- Re: DNS and DHCP appliances Michael Benedetto (Nov 09)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: DNS and DHCP appliances rbonifacic (Nov 07)
- RE: DNS and DHCP appliances Randy Johnson (Nov 08)