DNS Boss: Open and Extensible DNS Boss is very open and extensible. DNS Boss is not constrained to specific versions of BIND. It should work with all of the functioning versions of BIND from 4.x to 8.x to 9.x and all of the releases in between. DNS Boss is deliberately not shipped with a verion of BIND, so that the Systems Administrator can use the version of BIND that already comes with the system, or one they wish to build. For example, if a Systems Administrator were to only install DNS Boss on a Solaris 2.5 to Solaris 10 machine, they should be able to get a DNS primary running without installing anything else, because SUN ships a working version of BIND by default. DNS Boss is NOT locked into a SQL database. DNS Boss writes the DNS databases into open ASCII files. If for some reason, a decision was ever made to stop using DNS Boss, the ASCII DNS database files could still be modified by hand, and a company would not be locked into a proprietary solution, tied to a proprietary version of a SQL type database. DNS Boss can easily be extended by using either the command line interface with UNIX shell scripts, or the Java API. DNS Boss has powerful IP Management capabilities.