I'm just wondering what other people are doing for their DNS servers (OS, version of BIND, network topography, server specs, etc.)...

I'm using Microsoft DNS Server on Windows 2003.

It might be interesting to see what people have to say.

I run linux, usually redhat or slackware, with BIND. cPanel has some dns clustering which makes it easy to setup a cluster of dns servers. If not some simple rsync scripts will do the trick to sync all of the DNS servers.

i'm using djbdns on my primary (linux) and secondary (freebsd). secondary is synced to primary by means of rsync.

Originally posted by wKkaY
i'm using djbdns on my primary (linux) and secondary (freebsd). secondary is synced to primary by means of rsync.

Could someone give an example of how rsync works? Where can I get more info on it. I am looking to sync multiple "Primary" DNS servers to one secondary.

Thanks...

rsync is a efficent file transfer protocol (it only transfers the parts of the file that changed)... The site's rsync.samba.org

Micorsoft DNS is the better option to have in a microsoft server. At all times the native products will support better in all ways !!!

We use Debian and RedHat9 with Bind (version 9.something).
They are all primary nameservers. We have our own internal system for sync-ing them.
In a few months, we're throwing Debian out the window.

Originally posted by waxdoll
Micorsoft DNS is the better option to have in a microsoft server. At all times the native products will support better in all ways !!!
In this particular case, where the user isn't very much used to the actual microsoft dns interface pages, the native port of bind might be a better bet, especially if using off-network secondaries(which might not be running microsoft dns) is an interesting option.
With windows bind, cygwin and rsync, none of the secondaries will know you're not running unix, except if they nmap you. :D

I run Bind on Redhat , two separate DNS servers running on 2 datacentres, one as Master the other slave, the slave data will be rsync from the Master.

Using MS DNS with Windows 2003 (before that, MS DNS with Windows 2000).

No problems, a dream to administrate, have build an web interface for it, using WMI and .NET, rocks!

regards,
Steen

Bind on FreeBSD-Primary
DjbDNS on FreeBSD secondary
MSDNS on Win2K tertiary (is that how you realy spell it??)

I update the MSdns and it syncs to the other 2 via scripted zone transfer.

kinda an odd setup but I dont get hit with any Bind exploits that take down all my DNS and I can easily update stuff in the MSDNS control panel.

and I was realy bored when I set it up.........

Just to be different, we're using mydns :-)

zone data is stored in mysql and read directly by mydns in real time so no restarts/reloads etc when zones change and startup is instant as it doesn't need to read in any zone files etc.

Slave dns uses a local copy of the mysql datbase which is kept in sync by using mysql replication.

Currently running about 35,000 zones on 2 PIII 700 servers with an average load of 0.05