[Shacs] managing DNS

[Joshua Garvey]

Yeah webmin would work, but it can also be exploited by having a
webserver running even locally. It adds another security risk to the
system and I generally do not recommend that for public facing systems.
Usually DNS in Linux and Windows is just done the old text editor way.
Most Linux admins write themselves a perl or bash script to take care of
it. When I had to manage Linux DNS I just sat down for a few days and
wrote a perl script that would add, delete, or modify my entries and HUP
the services. If he is not a programmer/scriptor he may try to look
around the web (google etc...) for a script that will help make all the
changes. You are right though vi and DNS can become time consuming.

--Joshua Garvey

Richard Powell wrote:
> So far as I know, webmin (webmin.com) has a BIND module (assuming that's
> what you're using for DNS). That should do the job for you.
>
> Bronius Motekaitis wrote:
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>> Can anyone refer me to a software package that helps manage DNS in linux?
>>
>> I just spent 45 min hovering over our network admin watching him painfully
>> cd and vi his way through individual zone and mail transport/relay files
>> peppered across three servers (DNS, mail relay, and internal mail server)
>> just to set up a single email alias for a new domain on the network.
>> There
>> was a bit of trial and error involved, and now that I've started some
>> documentation on what we learned and recalled, it will cut the process
>> down
>> to a handful of minutes in the future.
>>
>> Is there not some simple DNS control panel for managing a linux DNS and
>> email aliases and such for internal networks similar to what is available
>> on
>> shared hosts like HSphere's Control Panel?
>>
>> thanks
>> -bronius
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