managing DNS

[Gerry Hull]

I' a big fan of dyndns.org;

I also use www.zonedit.com, who have been excellent over the past 10
years or so...

>From their FAQ:

"How can I backup/download my zone files?

If you want to back up all ZoneEdit DNS data for a given zone, use named-xfer:
named-xfer -z atreju.com -f atreju.com.txt ns1.zoneedit.com.

On unix, "named-xfer" comes with most distributions, and it's easy to
schedule a daily backup with cron.

On Windows, we like to use the ISC standard named-xfer tool. "

Regards,

Gerry


On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
<greg at freephile.com> wrote:
> At work I have over 700 domains to manage.  We use dnsmadeeasy which I
> don't find particularly easy.  We also use GoDaddy to register domains
> - and GoDaddy includes DNS management tools so I'm inclined to just
> use them for both registration and DNS management.
>
> Of course, over time, the DNS records have become very convoluted and
> 'dirty' with cnames and mx records that don't exist on target hosts
> etc.  What I'd like to do is clean it all up and also move it to an
> environment where it truly is easy to manage.
>
> Not being a DNS expert, I am supposing that I should be able to export
> a zone file for every one of the domains, and then clean them up
> manually before importing them into a new (GoDaddy) DNS management
> system.  Or maybe it's easier to just transfer and clean up using
> (GoDaddy's) DNS management application.
>
> How do I go about transferring and cleaning up my records?  It seems
> that I can use a Zone Transfer (AXFR ACL) to copy configuration to
> another name server.
>
> Anyone have recommendations on DNS management tools and service
> providers?   Why are they good?  One small nicety with DNS Made Easy
> is that you can configure internal addresses, so for example
> 'xerox1.example.com' can point to an internal address like
> 192.168.1.10 if that is the IP of your Xerox printer.
>
> Experience managing large sets of domains with GoDaddy - and know the
> limitations or problems associated with their tools?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Greg Rundlett
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