[netmagis] Re: centos and différentes vues on NETMAGIS

  • From: Pierre DAVID <pdagog@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: netmagis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:17:48 +0200

Hi,

I'm answering in English since this is an english-speaking list.

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:34:45PM +0200, HAYOT Alain wrote:
> Bonjour,
> 
> Nous utilisons un serveur DNS, DHCP au sein de lâINALCO. La majorità de
> nos serveur LINUX sont sous CENTOS.
> 
> Notre serveur DNS utilise des scripts qui crÃaient des vues en fonction des
> utilisateurs (classes dâadresses IP). Pour un rÃseau donnÃ, on associe
> une vue qui ne contiendra que certains noms ou adresses IP. Cela Ãvite par
> exemple de permettre aux rÃseau des Ãtudiants dâavoir accÃs aux
> informations DNS du rÃseau des administratifs.
> 
> Questions :
> 
> a)    Existe-t-il un package de NETMAGIS sur CENTOS ?
>

Packages are available on Debian/Ubuntu and FreeBSD.
There is no RH/CentOS package at this time.

> 
> b)    Si oui, sur quelle version de CENTOS et pour quel systÃme (32 ou 64
> bits) ?
> 
> c)    Peut-on crÃer diffÃrentes vues sous NETMAGIS ? 
>

DNS views are not supported in 2.1.0 release.

> 
> d)    Si la crÃation de diffÃrentes vues nâest pas possible, est ce prÃ
> vu dans le future ?
>

We are currently working on DNS views. This is a highly desired
feature, which has a large impact on the whole software.
DNS views will be released with the upcoming 2.2.0 version, which
may be available by the end of 2012.

You can refer to issue #26 on:
    https://github.com/pdav/netmagis/issues/26
and a branch has been created in the development tree:
    https://github.com/pdav/netmagis/tree/views

> 
> e)    Avoir un NETMAGIS secondaire impose-t-il des contraintes ?
>

If you run a unique name server for all your views, you must take
care of synchronisation when you reload the generated zones.

If you can't wait the 2.2 release, you may attempt to use 2 netmagis
instances. I'm sure the list members will be interrested by your
experience.

However, I would rather suggest that you begin with a single 2.1
Netmagis instance with your main data (i.e. you main view).
Meanwhile, you can continue to manually maintain your other views.

When the 2.2 release is available, the upgrade script will inject
all your existing data in the default view. The netmagis-dbimport
script will then allow you to import your other views very easily.

> 
> f)     Y a-t-il des problÃmes dâintÃgration de NETMAGIS dans un systÃme
> virtuel (Vmwareâ) ?
> 

To our knowledge, there is no problem to run Netmagis on a virtual
machine.  This is already the case here with a KVM instance. Impact
on resources is very low.

Pierre

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