Call to popen() to load in a zone file

[Kevin Darcy]

I suspect this feature may have been stillborn because of the insecurity of
popen(). Why not just set your sights on the BIND 9 codeset, which has a
much more well-defined hook for loading from external databases?
(Admittedly, this hook requires at least a little "C" coding -- at least
enough to make a wrapper for the SQL backend routines -- so it is not quite
as scriptable as the popen() idea...)


- Kevin

Renaud Waldura wrote:

> Dear bind-users,
>
> I found this post in the mailing-list archive:
>
> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Paul Vixie wrote:
> >
> > In 8.2.1 (sorry, it has slipped from 8.2) you will see a feature which
> > allows popen() to be called rather than fopen() when loading in a zone.
> > So an SQL program which can emit a zone file on its stdout will be all
> > you need.
>
> I just grabbed the latest 8.2.2P5 bind source, and I'm unable to
> see this patch anywhere. As far as I can tell, db_load uses a regular
> fopen() to load in a zone file, not a popen() as mentionned above.
>
> Was this patch forgotten from the release? Would someone by kind enough
> as to forward it to me? That would be very much appreciated (please make
> sure you Cc me also, since I'm not a member of this list).
>
> Thank you,
>
> --
> -- Renaud Waldura <renaud at waldura.org>