Manual & dynamic update-maintenance of zone files

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Feb 13 00:35:49 UTC 2001


Use Dynamic Update for *all* changes to the zone. nsupdate is your
friend, albeit a very chatty, cantankerous one at times...


- Kevin

Umakanth V.S wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have installed Bind 9.0.1 and DHCP ver3 on a Solaris 2.7 box for
> testing. In my organisation, I have to maintain some systems that are
> with static addresses and others with dynamic IP addresses.
>
> I would like to know the best way of maintaining  both these type of
> addresses in the DNS zone files. Manual updation of the data files and
> then incrementing the serial number causes the named server to exit
> because the files on disk and the journal files are not in sync.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Umakanth





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