Automatic Secondary NS

[Brad Knowles]

At 12:48 PM -0400 6/5/01, Todd Snyder wrote:

>  in that case, are there any tools that will make the changes?

	There are some tools you can use to help you administer the DNS, 
yes.  However, in my experience, they're fine for operators (so far 
as they go), but absolutely nothing takes the place of having domain 
administrators that actually know what they're doing.

>  Once I finish my current project, I'm going to start writing something (been
>  on my todo list for a while) .. but if theres something out there, or if
>  someone has a script they've already written...

	Before you go writing something, first check out what has already 
been written.  See <http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/tools.html> for a start.

>  It's a fairly obvious kind of thing - working at an ISP, whenever add a
>  domain, we have to update the secondary.  It would be much nicer if there
>  was one tool that would update both for provisioning.

	At my former employer, much to my chagrin, they had developed 
their own tools for use internally, and they were very tightly 
integrated into BIND 4.  This made it very, very hard to migrate to 
BIND 8.

	One of they projects that had been proposed was to completely 
re-do the tools, using a proper database as a back-end.  All operator 
interaction would be with the database.  When that was complete, we'd 
only need to issue a command to extract the current data from the 
database and create the updated versions of the zone files, the 
/etc/named.conf entries, etc....  Unfortunately, nothing ever came of 
this.  ;-(

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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