mysqlBind/unxsBind is a

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system. It supports

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(DNS) and is distributed as

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under the

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. mysqlBind/unxsBind has been in use since the late 1990s. It initially was designed to replace

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/ bash based sets of maintenance scripts that made deployment and upkeep of large DNS systems time-consuming and prone to human error.

Design

mysqlBind (now unxsBind) centralizes all data in a replicated

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database and limits any DNS configuration errors to one software package failure point. unxsBind is a BIND9+ server management system only, not a DNS server, and generates DNS server specific configuration files so that the DNS server does not have to rely on a live SQL database. The unxsBind used SQL server is only needed to be operational for administration and deployment of new

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s, new

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s, resource records changes and zone SOA changes. This non-reliance on a live SQL database has been a major point for reliable deployment of large scale DNS services.Dilva Garmendia, Website, May 2008,
unixservice.com
, May 2010 unxsBind is based on a "Company/Organization-Contact-Role" login and permissions model, such that end user organization contacts can manage their own DNS data from a shared infrastructure. This unxsBind shared infrastructure supports an unlimited number of organizations that can then administrate their own DNS resources, such as IP blocks,

s and

s. unxsBind provides for the centralized management of multiple independent name servers across data center boundaries. The unxsBind system consists of a back end (unxsBind/iDNS) interface, and several example end user interfaces: The idnsAdmin admin interface, and the end user idnsOrg and vdnsOrg interfaces. All provided interfaces run on SQL originated

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/ CSS/

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templates organized in types and sets for on the fly interface "skin" changes and new interfaces. This along with the backend/DNS-configuration-engine and front-end interface model used in unxsBind is meant to provide the DNS service provider with a simple path to provision their own custom interfaces with advanced functionality. For example, a DNS service provider branded

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based interface with

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hostname conversion for

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support. Secondary and master zones, secondary-only zones, forward zones, hidden masters and hidden external master zones are all supported. Recent versions allow unlimited

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configurations (multiple BIND 9.3+ views).

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, AAAA, and many other complex resource records are supported with input validation and contextual glossary based help. Wizards are provided for error prone complex DNS configuration management operations, e.g. in-addr.arpa reverse dns NS delegation using

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and $GENERATE directives.

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5.2+ yum installable version is available. Advanced features such as HA and LDAP single sign-on require that the system be configured and installed from source.

References

External links

mysqlBind (now unxsBind)
- The home of mysqlBind/unxsBind * *
MySQL BIND SDB Driver
at

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* * {{Freecode, id=mysqlbind, name=mysqlBind
www.dnssec-tools.org
- Tools for checking DNSSEC-bis deployments - Listings of DNS software - Listings of providers of DNS services - Listings of providers of dynamic DNS services Domain Name System

Design

See also

References

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