DHCP-DNS perl scripts version 0.7

[Kevin Darcy]

Just out of curiosity, why would any part of a DHCP/DynDNS package need to
restart the nameserver?


- Kevin

Christophe Michel wrote:

> Hello all
>
> Running a dynamic DNS server on a linux mandrake 8.1 server I was interested
> in the dhcp-DNS perl scripts available at
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/dhcpwithdynamicdns/?topic_id=149. They work
> fine, congratulations to Stephen Carville, the author
>
> Nevertheless, in my configuration (bind 9.2.0rc3) I could not run
> "ndc.cron.pl" because "ndc" does not exist in this version of bind, being
> replaced with "Rndc" and this program's restart option is not yet
> implemented. I would have liked to do a rndc "stop" and then "start" but
> unfortunately, whereas the "stop" command exists, the "start" does not.
>
> Continuing this way, I would have liked to use the "service named restart"
> init script like command available on Mandrake or Redhat systems but it is
> not runnable from within a perl script, so is not "/etc/rc.d/init.d/named
> restart". Would someone have a suggestion for me to restart named with or
> without rndc so to use ndc.cron.pl within my scheduled tasks
>
> Thanks in advance for your valuable help
>
> P.S. athough I am not a newby to Linux, I am not really a perl, nor bind
> expert, therefore do not hesitate to add comments.
>
> ----------------------------
> Christophe Michel
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