Zone Handling with Dynamic/Static RRs

phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Mon Aug 30 16:27:15 UTC 2004


James Bourne <jamesb at al.com.au> wrote:
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> Hi List,

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> I've setup dhcpd and bind to perform dynamic updates. Problem is that once a
> zone becomes dynamic it's no longer possible to edit the zone file itself.
> My zones contain a variety of RRs including MXs, CNAMEs along with static
> and dynamic IN A and PTR etc.

>  

> Please can someone advise the "correct" method for handling dynamic and
> static RRs in a single zone?


Separate the two. Place all "dynamic" RR in a sub-zone while 
keeping the importent ones static. Set up the reverse as static
since no application ever cares about "matches", at least not
for clients.



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