On 11/10/2015 10:18, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Sunday, October 11, 2015 09:35:39 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 11/10/2015 04:13, James wrote: >>> Howdy, >>> >>> So I now have (5) statics and a fiber feed, with lots of room to grow. >>> >>> I need to setup DNS primary/secondary systems on gentoo. So right now I'm >>> looking for a suggested list of packages to install with Bind, iptables >>> and >>> DNSSEC-tools as these (2) gentoo dns servers will only run the minimum >>> packages to operate securely? >> >> auth or cache? >> >> First of all, bind is a pain to use. Reason: it's actually a reference >> implementation that as usual got forced into production use. It's slower >> than it could be because it deals with every possible corner case per RFC. >> >> As an auth server (few queries) it's OK >> As a cache (many queries), there are better servers out there. I prefer >> unbound. > > As it is related to this thread, which server would people recommend when the > DNS records are to be found in a database? > Reason I am asking: > I want to set up a lab environment with VMs coming and going. > These all need to have hostname/mac/ip stored and configured correctly.
I don't understand. mac & IP go together in dhcp and arp hostname & IP go together in DNS & /etc/hosts hostname & mac & ip go together nowhere > Till now, I basically preconfigured Bind and DHCPd for a bunch of them. > I would prefer to be able to specify a hostname for this, but writing > something that keeps changing the configuration and keeping it in-sync with a > database is a bit overkill. arp updates when the host comes on-line dhcp & dns are separate from individual VMs, populating those services is part of provisioning them. Perhaps detail more what you are trying to accomplish? -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
