Adonis™ DNS/DHCP Appliance

It’s About Rock Solid Infrastructure

The number of network-dependent applications continues to increase as organizations switch to IP-based systems, such as Voice over IP, RFID or IP security cameras. These additional devices, along with a growing IP infrastructure, put a strain on network services. Much of this strain is placed on an organization’s DNS and DHCP infrastructure, which must now handle the name and IP assignment for this growing network. Given the importance of these new IP-enabled devices, organizations need to ensure that their IP infrastructure, and in particular DNS and DHCP, is robust enough to deliver continuous uptime and performance to meet the growing demands of the organization. Organizations need to invest in a DNS and DHCP infrastructure that can meet these demands while providing continuous services, ensuring that their business is always up and running.

Adonis DNS/DHCP Appliance™

BlueCat’s award winning Adonis DNS/DHCP Appliances provide organizations with an enterprise-class DNS and DHCP solution. Purpose-built to provide the highest level of availability and performance, BlueCat’s Adonis appliances provide organizations with a powerful and robust DNS and DHCP solution combined with an intuitive management interface to simplify DNS and DHCP management. Available as both a physical and virtual appliance, BlueCat allows organizations to choose the appliance that is most appropriate for their environment.

Comprehensive DNS and Powerful DHCP

All organizations have come to depend on DNS and DHCP for successful business operations, however few have invested in an enterprise solution for either service. DNS and DHCP are often run on open-source software or as part of a bundled solution with an existing server. While these solutions provide basic functionality, they do little to provide organizations with a true enterprise-class DNS and DHCP solution.

• Powerful DNS That’s Easy to Manage
  Adonis’ flexibility ensures that it can be implemented into any DNS architecture to augment or replace an organization’s existing DNS deployment. With advanced features like DNS views, Transaction Signatures (TSIG) for authenticated updates and zone transfers, Anycast support for DNS redundancy, and automatic reverse record generation, Adonis provides the functionality to meet the DNS demands of any organization.


• Comprehensive DHCP That Simplifies Administration
  With the ability to manage multiple DHCP servers from a single interface, Adonis provides a comprehensive view into an organization’s DHCP infrastructure. Adonis’ DHCP Failover support allows organizations to provide true DHCP redundancy and deploy a robust DHCP architecture that is resilient to failure. Advanced features, such as class matching, vendor options and MAC authentication, provide the functionality needed to meet the addressing demands of any organization.

Management Made Simple

Adonis’ centralized management, with delegated access controls, provides administrators across the organization the ability to modify DNS and DHCP. Using wizard-driven setups and deployment guides, Adonis directs users through difficult DNS and DHCP configuration changes to simplify administration. Automatic detection of configuration errors before deployment, coupled with undo and redo capabilities, provide the ability to delegate access control with the confidence that errors can be detected before they are deployed, providing a DNS and DHCP management interface that even novice users can use.

Reliable DNS and DHCP Services

Given the critical nature of DNS and DHCP services, organizations cannot tolerate a system outage. In order to safeguard against potential service outages, Adonis provides extensive failover, high availability and disaster recovery features. Adonis’ high availability allows organizations to cluster multiple DNS/DHCP appliances together to protect against a single system failure. Adonis also supports DHCP failover and Anycast for DNS to provide service level load balancing and failover support. Combining these measures gives organizations a robust DNS and DHCP solution that shields against costly network down time and service disruption.

Purpose-built for Security, Security, Security

The purpose-built Adonis appliance uses a hardened operating system, developed by BlueCat Networks. The operating system includes a built-in firewall and additional security modifications to ensure the most secure operating environment for DNS and DHCP. In addition to system-level security, BlueCat also provides application-level security for both DNS and DHCP. DNS runs in a jailed environment, and both DNS and DHCP come configured with strong defaults for added security. Additional security features, such as Transaction Signatures (TSIG) for DNS data authentication and ACLs for DNS and DHCP service limitation, provide organizations with the ability to enhance security for their mission-critical DNS and DHCP services.

Voice over IP and Active Directory Support

Adonis allows organizations to speed the deployment of Voice over IP. In addition to providing advanced DHCP support for common vendor and device classes, Adonis includes an integrated TFTP server, for distribution and management of VoIP end points, and an integrated NTP server, for network clock synchronization.

BlueCat Networks is a Microsoft certified partner in Advanced Infrastructure for Active Directory. The Adonis Management Console’s Active Directory Wizard simplifies the process of integrating DNS services with Microsoft Active Directory®, allowing AD servers to dynamically register required zones and records.

Adonis DNS/DHCP Appliance™

BlueCat’s Adonis DNS/DHCP appliances provide organizations with a complete DNS and DHCP solution. Combining BlueCat’s own secure operating system with BlueCat’s enterprise DNS and DHCP service applications, where all software, patches and updates are handled by BlueCat Networks, Adonis removes the need for administrators to install and maintain additional software or operating systems, saving administrative time and effort. In addition to this, Adonis also provides optional IPMI support for out-of-band management in most models, allowing administrators to access the system remotely in case of a network or power failure.

Adonis VIRTUAL Appliance™

BlueCat’s Adonis DNS/DHCP virtual appliances are based on BlueCat’s award-winning physical appliances. Combining BlueCat’s secure operating system, along with enterprise-level DNS and DHCP services, provides customers with a virtual appliance that can be easily deployed and maintained. Virtualization allows companies to lower operational costs by consolidating services, whether in the datacenter or at the branch office, reducing hardware footprint and lowering energy consumption. Organizations will now be able to rapidly provision DNS and DHCP for capacity handling, as well as relocate services from one server to another for enhanced disaster recovery support – all without having to install any additional physical systems.