20. Sep. 2003 - Unfortunately, I was quite busy the last months and I thus have to postpone the next release. That said, I would like to invite people willing to contributen to contact me. Any help is highly appreciated.
17. Jun. 2003 - Finally the new release is available. Changes include better support for slave zones, improved job handling, job revocation, use of CSS 2.0 in XSLT stylesheets and lots of bug fixes and code optimizations.
2. Jun. 2003 - Updates to the web page including the roadmap. Development is making good progress and the next release will be available soon. It will probably be the last version before 1.0 so if you have any suggestions which should be considered before a final stable version please write me an eMail.
ZoneMaster is a tool for zone file and name server management. It is designed for large name servers and makes configuration much easier. You should be able to run ZoneMaster on any UNIX-based system that uses the Internet Software Consortium's (ISC) implementation of Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) as its name service daemon, which is the case for most large name servers on the net.
The software can be used to create new zones and to delete or modify existing ones in a variety of ways. All changes will take place in a database. A job handler then actually makes the changes take effect on the machines under control. The user interaction is possible with a standard compliant web browser. Because of the highly modular application design other types of interaction are possible. One such possibility are command line utilities or standalone applications with a more comfortable user interface.
The ZoneMaster project consists of a library that can configure BIND and a webfrontend that is used to access the data that is stored in a database like MySQL. A bootstrap script allows to initialize the database with all necessary information retrieved from an existing configuration. This means that an existing named.conf and all referenced zone files are read and the relevant information is stored in the database.
The software is already used in production. If you want to evaluate the software you can use a copy of your current configuration or create some test data with a script supplied for that purpose.
ZoneMaster is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Andy Wolf <zonemaster@users.sourceforge.net>
