Re: Problem with adding multiple interfaces on a System

[Stephen L Johnson <sjohnson@godzilla.monsters.org>]

> Stephen, thanks very much for the bug report.  Ordinarily, it would be more
> helpful if you could run the client without having a just-in-time compiler
> enabled so that the stack trace would include line numbers, but in this case
> your description of the problem was detailed enough and the problem repeatable
> enough that Mike was able to track down the problem.

Sorry about the JIT compiler being enabled. I just getting started with 
learning the in and outs of Java and the JDK. I'm barely beyond the installed 
and get some application work stage.

I thought the problem might have been the beta versions of the JDK and Swing I 
was using. So I tried several version of a couple of different OSs. I must 
have grabbed the stack trace from my Solaris session.

> Out of curiosity, were you using GASH previously, or did you just initialize
> the server with the GASH schema and go from there entering data?  How large a
> network are you looking to manage?  Have things seemed reasonably intuitive?

I've not been using any zone maintenance tools, just zone files and vi. I 
rolled out DNS for my business division, because when I started we had to 
update 60 hosts files for IP changed.  I'm the DNS guru, which is a state I'm 
trying to change.

I've installed and tested all of the public tools listed in www.dns.net. But 
everything (including GASH) was too limited, too buggy or too hard to use. I 
looked at several commercial tools, but all of them where to expensive to just 
maintaining a small DNS zone.  And then I find Ganymede, it's almost just 
right out of the box, it allows for many administrators and I don't have to 
give anyone superuser access.

I wanted Ganymede for DNS management, but since my group is up to 82 UNIX 
servers and down to 5 people I've been thinking very seriously about NIS.  We 
should have done it before now but there's never been enough time to do it 
right. But Ganymede may make it a lot easier to maintain.  This year ALLTEL 
merged with 360 Communications, so my group should be see about 90 more 
servers.

Ganymede should would for use right now. I've got just one DNS zone to worry 
about right now and I can live with just NIS domain right now.  But we really 
needs about 3 or 4 NIS domains, but I think that I can add that into Ganymede 
with not much trouble. What I would like in the long term is to have have an 
enterprise-wide management schema.

I really like what I've seen so far in Ganymede. The custom namespaces are 
ingenious. Keep the excellent work.

Ease of use? I'm the sort that installs software and starts trying to use it. 
I figured the Gash scheme are a few wrong turns and retries.  So I guess I can 
give Ganymede good marks for ease of use.

I really like what I've seen so far in Ganymede. The customer name spaces are 
ingenious. Keep up the excellent work. I look forward to the next release.

Stephen L Johnson
<sjohnson@monsters.org>