From: "Geo." 

I use the MS dns manager, I create a zone or an A record or whatever and it
takes care of all the punctuation and whatever the dns file needs, it locks
out zone transfers except to my NS records, it also creates the PTR record
for me (or deletes it if I'm removing/changing something) and then it
automatically replicates these changes to my secondary dns servers.

A downstream ISP uses bind, and I'm constantly tracking down problems for
him that are caused by his typo's (oops no . at the end) or because he
missed replicating to the secondary servers or removing/changing a PTR.

It's not like I can't edit the dns file if I want, it's that unless I'm
going to fill a whole zone with a bunch of entries I created in a
spreadsheet there is no advantage and a huge disadvantage to editing the
file vs using a GUI manager program. I manage dns for hundreds of domains,
at minimum I edit a dozen zones every day, trust me when I tell you editing
the file is not the easy way..

Geo.

"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
news:eetdu294ajaaph10aipklmmi7bg0nigo7s{at}4ax.com...
> DNS zones files are not analogous to the windows registry.  While the
> GUI interface is nice and convenient, it isn't required to manage DNS.
>
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:18:24 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote:
>
>>You probably like hand editing dns zone files too.. and manually
>>replicating
>>them to secondary servers.. and manually creating the PTR that goes along
>>with the forward lookup and ...
>>
>>Geo.
>>
>>"mike"  wrote in message
>>news:nv0cu2tq4sprl0hmebv3mlkq6a1mihmih7{at}4ax.com...
>>> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:16:05 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote:
>>>
>>>>and you think the registry is nasty?
>>>
>>>
>>> Yup.
>>>
>>> I'll take text-oriented config files anytime.
>>>
>>> /m

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