Bind configuration tools?

[Kevin Darcy]

phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu wrote:

>Morten W. Petersen <morten at nidelven-it.no> wrote:
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>>we're setting up a new server which will host DNS for clients, and we'd like to
>>give the clients the ability to control and update domains.
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>>Are there any good (preferably web based) tools that allows delegation of 
>>priviledges to users, so that they can add domains, subdomains, etc.?
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>'vi' ( or your editor of choice) is the general tool to 
>adjust bind's configuration. Everything else is sub-optimal and
>has limitations.
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"vi" is optimal?!?! You want regular users running around editing your 
named.conf files with "vi"? Sometimes limitations are a *good* thing, 
especially if you have users who lack necessary skill levels to handle 
things like /etc/named.conf maintenance I, for example, have a web 
utility that allows a user to (with the necessary sanity checks, etc.) 
create a zonefile in the zonefile directory and to add the name of the 
new zone to a special "zone list" which is kept in DNS itself. Then a 
cron job runs periodically and adds that new zone to /etc/named.conf 
based on a kind of "template" of how a zone definition should look. I 
think this is preferable to the "everybody vi the named.conf file" 
approach, and thus closer to "optimal".

                                                                         
                                    - Kevin