newbie asks: script triggered by dynamic updates

Michael Garriss mgarriss at earthlink.net
Wed Oct 15 22:19:24 UTC 2003


Simon Waters wrote:
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> Eduardo Ferreira wrote:
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>>I'm very new to BIND 9.2.2 and needed to know if there is any way to
>>execute a script after named receives a dynamic update from a client.
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> This
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>>way I could rearrange my iptables rules accordingly.
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> No out-of-the-box way I've seen mentioned.
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> Updates are logged to the log file by default, so you could get a script
> to track that (or existing tools even) if you are allergic to C (I think
> I'm becoming so).

Or use a scripting language like Ruby, Perl, or Python.  These 
languages shine when used on problems like this.

Michael


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