Restrict Dynamic Updates to a Portion of a Zone

[Barry Margolin]

In article <8clets$d9u$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <docbrown at mailexcite.com> wrote:
>Is there anyway using Bind 8.2.2p5 to restrict what parts of a give zone
> can be updated dynamically?
>
>For example, say I have a zone, testzone.com with hosts A, B, C, D.  Can
>I say let the hosts and IP address for C and D be updated dynamically
>while never dynamically change A and B?

You could delegate A and B into zones of their own:

zone "testzone.com" {
  ...
  allow-update { ... };
};

zone "a.testzone.com" {
  ...
};

zone "b.testzone.com" {
  ...
};

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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