bind on bluecat's adonis 1000

They plan to support views. The current version (3.1rc6) does not.

Mine does. Are you sure you've got the latest firmware? Have
you talked to your sales rep as to when the next firmware revision
will come out?

Hrm. I have the latest firmware available - 3.1rc6 - and according to their Web page:
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"As of version 3.1, the DNSone does not support BIND views. The next major release of code, version 3.2, will have BIND view support.=20 Please consult your Infoblox sales representative for more information on this future release."

On top of that, I don't see where this would be configurable on my 3.1
GUI and my sales rep was very clear that it wasn't there. Maybe you
have some beta firmware?

They definitely work to make the appliance as easy to monitor
and manage as possible, and they're working on interfaces to expose
more of the internal capabilities of the software in a user-friendly
way, through the monitoring/management interface.

This kind of approach is critical when you're managing a large
network of these things. Just precisely what else would you expect an
appliance vendor to do? Ship you the parts and let you do it for
yourself?

No, I don't expect that. I agree with you entirely. The whole ease-of-use and TCO arguments are valid, but it comes with a price.=20 You can't tinker so much and at times it can be annoying. That's all I'm saying.
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*IF* this
clustering feature works as advertised, multiple appliances can be
effortlessly inserted into an existing environment with virtually
identical configurations.

From what I've seen, it works as advertised.

Like I said, I look forward to trying it out (don't have the eval keys yet)= .
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Uh, no. It's absolutely plain-vanilla BIND, albeit configured
to support threading because they've got two Opteron processors in the
box and the OS supports threading and locking in a way that is
efficient and fits well with the BIND model.

Well, then it's been changed hasn't it? I did not mean "ersatz" as in "ersatz coffee". Probably a poor choice of words, come to think of it. Whenever you have an appliance, it's safe to say that its familiar components have been changed in one or more important ways.

The only time I've seen it be "slow" is a result of my ancient
Apple PowerBook G3/400 "Pismo" laptop that just can't execute Java
code very quickly. Today, I popped in a G4/550 upgrade module, and
we'll see how much faster it is. Certainly, everything else I do
seems much faster, and I imagine that I'll see a similar benefit for
Java.

There are slowness issues. I can't say for sure, but I suspect that part of it is a combination of network issues and my PC hardware/OS .=20 Regardless, it's the only Web GUI I work with that crawls and in any case, it needs to be more forgiving of such shortcomings. And you can't deny that it takes forever for the thing to start up. I am glad to see Java in play, but the implementation has been disappointing thus far.

The worst part is they way
the GUI "exits". There is no log-off button. Instead, you must
exit your browser completely to reconnect. This is so annoying, I
can barely stop myself from foaming at the mouth as I type this paragraph.

I have seen some user interface issues that I'm going to be
talking to them about, and I won't mince words when it comes to
talking about them publicly, if they don't get them fixed pretty soon.

I have voiced many complaints in the past 3-4 months. Not one has been a first. We will have to see how well they respond with the next two major releases.

However, I haven't had it for long, and I haven't had that
much opportunity to work with it. I'm going to hold off judgement for
a little while, until I get more experience with it.

Right on.

Here, here. Test. *THEN* tell us how it works. Corporate Web
sites and marketing brochures and those who read from them are
about as accurate as my shoe.

I am testing. I haven't pulled any punches when it comes to
products I've worked with in the past, and I'm not about to start now.

I did not intend to suggest otherwise, although as I Iook at what I wrote it sure seems like I did. You are one of a select group of bind-users phenoms whose posts I go out of my way to read and whose
opinions I give special weight. Having been forced to evaluate a few
appliances in the last two years, I have developed a trigger "oh yeah?
show me!" reflex.

I hope to see more Infoblox posts on this group - how it compares to BIND, how it stacks up. It has relevance I think, especially if they become as successful and widespread as they hope to be. This is not djbdns we're talking about. Dunno. Maybe I should check my bind-users FAQ.

--Greg Chavez

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