About NicTool
NicTool and nictool.com are maintained by a team led by Matt Simerson.
NicTool is a free DNS management suite that takes all the headaches out of managing DNS. It includes an attractive web interface for users, admins, and clients to access and update their DNS zone data as well as a rich API for provisioning systems to interact with. All zone data is stored in MySQL and is extracted by export scripts to the DNS server of choice (tinydns, BIND, PowerDNS).
Updates are all parsed for validity before being accepted. All changes are logged and it's easy to determine who made any given change, and when. Permissions are extremely granular. You can delegate permission for a zone to another user, or group of users. You can even delegate only specific zone records to other users or groups. You can grant others permission to publish to your DNS servers, but not the ability to alter them.
NicTool is the holy grail of DNS management packages. It works great for managing one zone, or a million of them.
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See what others have to say about NicTool in the NicTool Community Forums. There you'll find general discussions as well as the NicTool Developers Corner where folks interested in enhancing NicTool can discuss their ideas.
History
A brief history of NicTool.
Present
The NicTool site is under-going active development and is nearly feature-complete as of October 2004. The sources have all been imported into CVS for code management and are released as version 2.01.
Future
NicTool's greatest want is in the installation and documentation areas. It's currently a pain to install and there's little available to walk you through the process. The next step in NicTool's evolution is an install process that makes it easy to get a NicTool system up and running. Once that is accomplished, documenting the entire system will be required.
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