DNS update, when is the zone file updated ??

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Tue Apr 4 14:20:36 UTC 2000


> At 07:24 04.04.00 +1000, Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:
> > > The reason I'm concerened is that we still on occation do manual changes
> > > to the zone files, and afterwards do a 'ndc reload zone', but I expect th
> ings
> > > to break, if the zone file that we're editing is not up to date, or ??
> >
> >         Then unconfigure dynamic updates, reload, edit, reload, check logs
> >         then reconfigure dynamic updates and reload if no errors reported.
> >
> >         Or just use nsupdate to perform the changes.
> 
> I have the same problem as I am planning to allow dynamic updates from
> DHCP for a forward/reverse zone pair I currently maintain manually with
> RCS. It is obvious that using nsupdate for manual changes to a dynamic
> zone is the Right Thing. It does however appear a bit awkward to use for
> everyday operation. I am also not altogether happy with losing the
> formatting and comments in my zone files, and the version history and
> backup features of RCS.
> 
> How do others handle that situation? Are there any neat front-ends to
> nsupdate yet or should I get out my Camel book and hack one up myself?
> I had a quick look in the contrib archive of BIND 8.2.2-P5 but didn't
> find anything suitable.
> 
> One solution that comes to mind would be to maintain a database of
> static hosts separate from BIND, make all changes to that database,
> and have them automatically propagated to BIND via nsupdate. Has
> anybody already tried something like that?
> 

	I'm sure its been done.  Nobody however has sent in anything
	however.

	If you kept the zone as one record per line fully specified
	suitable post processing of a diff output would work as input
	to nsupdate, just don't forget the blank line at the end.

	Mark
> -- 
> Tilman Schmidt          E-Mail: Tilman.Schmidt at sema.de (office)
> Sema Group Koeln, Germany       tilman at schmidt.bn.uunet.de (private)
> 
> 
> 
--
Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc. / Internet Software Consortium
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at nominum.com



More information about the bind-users mailing list