Purging dynamic zones
Robert.Weber at Colorado.EDU
Robert.Weber at Colorado.EDU
Mon Mar 20 19:41:40 UTC 2000
Hello,
I'm using Bind 8.2.2P5 on a solaris box and tring to make a
dynamic zone for W2K to use. We have choosen to manage A,MX,CNAME,HINFO
records through one of our existing tools and use a perl script to make
the dynamic updates. One problem seem to be getting me. The Zone is
updated nightly from a database program used by 50+ admins accross the
campus. The way I'm doing the updates now is with a:
prereq yxrrset pita.ad.colorado.edu. in a
update delete pita.ad.colorado.edu. in a
prereq yxrrset pita.ad.colorado.edu. in hinfo
update delete pita.ad.colorado.edu. in HINFO
update add pita.ad.colorado.edu. 85000 in A 128.138.196.83
update add pita.ad.colorado.edu. 85000 in HINFO "various" " "
For the Host pita, making sure that it's a,HINFO records are always
fresh. The problem comes when someone changes pita's name to gyros and
the the a and HINFO records for pita are stuck in the zone since no
record of "pita" exists once the name is changed. Is there any way to
"purge" all the A records, MX records, etc. from a dynamic zone so it can
be re-built from scratch? If so I could purge and rebuild the zone
nightly rather than trying to make another program that gets all the
deleted and changed hostnames from a days work and cleans up.
Robert Weber
Univeristy of Colorado
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