Best practice of remote-management

[Kevin Darcy]

For file transfer, some folks recommend rsync over ssh.

For reconfig/reload of the nameservers remotely, you could go to BIND 9 and use
rndc.


- Kevin

Webservice wrote:

> Problem:
> - Want to update/add/delete zonefiles from a mysql database to
> primary/secondary nameservers which only run Bind-8.
> - I don't want to run a webserver on the nameservers (perhaps mysql)
>
> Solutions:
> Well, I thought of couple ideas ans surfed the web (grabbed here and there
> some sources), but the most sources is for running nameservers and
> webservers on the same machine.
>
> I already have a separate machine where all info for the domains is stored
> in mysql (mx, cnames, nameservers, webserver).
> So it's not so hard to build the zone-files and named.conf from that
> database, but then what?
>
> - Sending the namefiles through FTP and restart Bind with a cron (or an open
> port)
> - Using NFS (over a private 192.168-network)
> - Upgrading/patching bind (rather not but if it's a good solution)
>
> Has anyone a good idea for this?