Search Again: Re: Men & Mice Website From: Men & Mice Support Date: Monday, September 2, 2002 Time: 10:21:43 am At 9:52 PM +0200 9/1/02, Matt Henderson wrote: >On Sunday, September 1, 2002, a@atc.ch (Alexandre Takacs) wrote: > >>Matt, >> >>> Could someone on this list briefly indicate what is different in 4.0 >>> -- in terms of features and system architecture? >> >>In a very few words: 3.5.x is / was an actual DNS server - 4.0 is a >>configuration tool for BIND. > >We purchased the product "QuickDNS 3.5". What was delivered was "QDNS >Remote", which runs on Linux, and provides a management interface to the >BIND DNS server. These management services are accessed by "QuickDNS >Manager", a client tool that runs on MacOS. > >So, in our case, QuickDNS 3.5 _isn't_ the actual DNS server, but rather a >collection of tools for managing/configuring BIND. From what you indicate >above, then, there isn't much difference between 3.5 and 4.0. The pertinent differences are: - Automatic updates of PTR records - Full logging / Zone change history - Unlimited Undo/Redo - Better integration of multi-server networks - Increased security; all network traffic is now implemented with secure protocols - Support for four new record types (AAAA, RP, AFSDB, WKS) - Support for BIND 9 Many of these features are implemented with the addition of a new component, QuickDNS Central. You can have multiple DNS servers, multiple DNS management workstations, and one central data-store server. QuickDNS Central is responsible for: - remembering access privileges - logging changes to zones - etc. You no longer log directly into QuickDNS Remote. Instead, you log into QuickDNS Central, and then the connections to the various copies of Remote are automatic. Also, in a NAT'd environment, or before you get you DNS data configured, you can still connect to your server by the intended hostname - even though that hostname doesn't resolve to the correct IP address. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy

Messages In This Thread: Men & Mice Website by Matt Henderson on Sep 1, 2002 at 2:53:59 am Re: Men & Mice Website by Len Conrad on Sep 1, 2002 at 10:12:37 am Re: Men & Mice Website by Matt Henderson on Sep 1, 2002 at 12:58:24 pm Re: Men & Mice Website by Jeff Grossman on Sep 1, 2002 at 3:11:46 pm Re: Men & Mice Website by Roland Dumas on Sep 1, 2002 at 3:33:48 pm Re: Men & Mice Website by N. Lyne on Sep 2, 2002 at 9:31:57 am Re: Men & Mice Website by Men & Mice Support on Sep 2, 2002 at 10:14:51 am Re: Men & Mice Website by Men & Mice Support on Sep 2, 2002 at 10:21:43 am