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Searching for a opportunity to easily administer your domain names? I recommend you to use a web-based control panel where you can update web and mail records and have the results reflected on your DNS servers within minutes. Below is a list of free BIND management tools what allow me to maintain the DNS servers:

DNS Control

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Is a web-based DNS management tool for BIND. You can completely manage a domain from a web interface. It supports maintaining A, MX, and CNAME records, with all information stored in a MySQL database. It is completely written in PHP (smarty for the templates). There are two separate interfaces: for administrators and for end users. The admin interface is for adding/removing/updating passwords for domains in the system. The user interface is for managing a domain
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Software bind dns management

BIND is a popular application used by many to provide name services. However, it is not without certain risks. If you jail it, you can increase the security and reliability of name services.

I decided to share my experience, because I've done this on a handful of machines and have the routine down pretty well, and anybody else with the same problem set, on Ubuntu server, might find this helpful.

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