Managing multiple DNS Servers

[Odhiambo Washington]

Hello Gang,

I have spent the last three days looking into "efficient" ways to manage 
multiple DNS server. My preferred ones are Open Source, to begin with!

There is not so much information out there, or maybe my keywords were 
simply fake.

I have three NSes, 1 master and 2 slaves and manually managing them is 
not a good idea - not efficient so far.

I believe this list has all the information (and maybe tools) that I 
need.

Basically, I have looked at a couple DB based solutions and narrowed
down on Sauron and mysqlBind (http://openisp.net/mysqlBind/).

1. Sauron doesn't seem quite intuitive when it comes to dealing with
   "split views" in Bind (although I hear rumors it could work). I am
   still looking at it.
2. mysqlBind (1.94) - I have not managed to compile this on my 
   5.5-STABLE. I'd appreciate help from anyone who has succeeded with
   compiling...

It's obvious that I am not the only one running more than 1 Name 
Server. There are those of you who run over 5, or even clusters of 
NSes.

Would you please share ideas on methods you have used to manage your 
name servers. So far, whenever I delete a zone on the master, I have to 
go to the slaves and delete the zone. I wish I could avoid such steps.

I know I could make some complicated scripts to do this, but I am sure 
such wheels are already rolling somewhere... no need to reinvent.




-Wash

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