"CACHEBOX offered three key criteria in one neat package: enhanced security, increased reliability and ease-of-use"
Mike Bird, IT Director, DHL, UK "DNSBOX just works for the purposes we need – a redundant, reliable DHCP service"
Kevin Williams, Director, Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School, USA "DNSBOX has taken my anxiety away about my network"
Lenny Libitz, Chief Technology Officer, South Bound Brook Public School District, NJ, USA "We have no complaints, we've not had to do much with the DNSBOX. It's pretty solid!"
Colin Norford, Cache Administrator/IT Manager, The Cable, Saint Kitts and Nevis "With ApplianSys there's a guaranteed level of service - we know you are experts at what you do."
Joe Meno Network Operations Mgr, Pacific Data Systems, Guam, USA

Ultra-secure, High Performance DNS/DHCP Server

DNSBOX200 is an advanced DNS slave, recursive resolver (DNS cache) and DHCP server for high performance and security needs. It is a very flexible appliance, which can be licenced for whichever of the 3 services you need and adapts to the specific role(s) to give you a fit-for-purpose device.

DNSBOX-Slave-diagram2 It can be deployed in different ways:

  • Managed seamlessly from the DNSBOX400 / DNSBOX300 master web interface
  • Linked to other DNS or DHCP servers
  • As a standalone server (DNS cache or DHCP)

In addition, DNSBOX200 can be used as a DNS master, for editing authoritative DNS records.

 

DNSBOX200 runs authoritative and recursive (cache) DNS as separate services on the same physical server. This:

  • Improves security by isolating the authoritative server from the more vulnerable DNS cache
  • Means you can follow this best practice approach yet only need to pay for and manage one physical server – the best of both worlds
  • Gives you better performance as specialised software is used for the individual services:
    • BIND for authoritative
    • Unbound for recursive

When you use the authoritative resolver as a DNS slave…

  • You have the specialist DNS admin features you need on a slave:
    • Ability to display, filter and search for zones, as well as view their status
    • Real-time and historical graphs on performance of your DNS service
    • Easy monitoring of slaved zones
    • Support for slave and stub zones
    • IPv6 support

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  • Additional features make the service even more secure and reliable:
    • Support for DNSSEC signed zones
    • TSIG Keys
    • IP-secured connections with other DNS servers
    • Offline master mode – serving zones from their last known ‘good’ state

PDF-icon-sm Download DNSBOX200‘s factsheet (pdf, 403k)

When you use the recursive resolver (DNS cache)…

  • Because the server is Unbound, you get a more secure solution and carrier-grade caching performance – 2.5x performance of BIND
  • You have the specialist DNS admin features you need:
    • Ability to display, filter, add, edit, delete and search for forward zones
    • Automatic forward zones creation for local zones
    • Real-time and historical graphs on performance of your DNS service
    • Logging recursive queries to syslog and local log
    • IPv6 support

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  • Additional features make the service even more secure and reliable:
    • Cache poisoning protection
    • DDoS attacks protection
    • DNSSEC validation
    • High availability load balanced clustering

PDF-icon-sm Download DNSBOX200‘s factsheet (pdf, 403k)

When you use the DHCP Server…

  • DHCP configuration is easy and accurate
    • Automated validation of DHCP configurations
    • Custom configuration fields
    • Import/export option for easy backups and ability to copy changes between servers
    • Ability to group hosts, subnets and networks
    • Support for all DHCPD options
    • Ability to assign static IP addresses to clients using MAC authentication
    • Automated log rotation
    • IPv6 and DHCPv6 support

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  • You can easily set up DHCP failover to ensure maximum availability
    • Single web interface for managing all failover units
    • Only the primary needs to be configured
    • Automated replication of changes to a secondary active unit
  • Informative DHCP statistics give you full visibility of the service. You can:
    • View and search for leases
    • View and search for hosts, zones, subnets and IP ranges
    • Group subnets
    • Store additional information about devices

PDF-icon-sm Download DNSBOX200 for DHCP Factsheet (pdf, 945.14kB)

If you have just a few small zones, you can use DNSBOX200 as a DNS master for editing authoritative DNS records simply by switching its operating mode from slave to master.

When you use the authoritative resolver as a DNS master…

  • You have the specialist DNS admin features you need:
    • Ability to display, add, delete, edit, filter and search for zones, as well as view their status
    • Real-time and historical graphs on performance of your DNS service
    • Easy monitoring of slaved zones
    • Support for slave and stub zones
    • Automated validation of DNS configuration
    • IPv6 support
  • Additional features make the service even more secure and reliable:
    • Support for DNSSEC signed zones
    • TSIG Keys
    • IP-secured connections with other DNS servers

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Because DNSBOX is versatile and scalable, our customers around the world come in all shapes and sizes. Some want to simplify, control and protect their DDI services, others just want to solve a specific DNS or DHCP headache.

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