Purging dynamic zones

Robert Weber Robert.Weber at Colorado.EDU
Tue Mar 21 21:21:31 UTC 2000


> > --------
> > 
> *Clip*
> > > > 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.
> > > 
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**Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
> The "old-fashioned" way would be to nightly rewrite an $INCLUDE file, bump
> the zone serial, and then tell named to reload the zone. This won't work, 
> of
> course, if there are other records in the zone which need to be updated
> dynamically.
> 
> 
> - Kevin
> 
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In truth I would like to do it that way but since W2K requires that
the "Active Direcory Servers" have the ability to make dynamic SRC
records in the zone I cannot do that.  I need some way to batch remove
all non-srv records so the zone isn't filled with bogus records.  


						Robert Weber
		 				UnixOps
> 						University of Colorado
> 
> 
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Status: by weberr Tue Mar 21 14:20:47 2000
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