modifying bind
Peter Dambier
peter at peter-dambier.de
Sat Jun 25 20:17:48 UTC 2005
Mike A wrote:
> not a good idea as in not a good idea to ask or not a good idea to do what i
> am triyng?
And I would not even think about looking there for ideas:
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
:)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Danny Mayer" <mayer at gis.net>
> To: "Mike A" <dev at devolition.co.uk>
> Cc: <bind-users at isc.org>
> Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 8:33 PM
> Subject: Re: modifying bind
>
>
>
>>Mike A wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>> i am currently trying to code an option like $GENERATE but instead of
>>>generating the records in advance, it would generate them on the fly and
>>>cache them. Currently i have code in place that generates a hostname
>
>>from a
>
>>>requested IP address however i am not sure how to get bind to add it to
>
> the
>
>>>cache and return the generated hostname as a ptr record.
>>>
>>>The code to generate the hosts on the fly was inserted inside the else
>>>statement in lib/dns/rbt.c around line 1028. As far as i know, this
>>>populates the foundname with the generated hostname but doesn't do
>
> anything
>
>>>in regards to adding a record to the rb tree or getting bind to return
>
> this
>
>>>host.
>>>
>>>Can anyone tell me what is needed to make bind return the result
>
> generated
>
>>>in the foundname variable or give some hints to find out?
>>>
>>>If this is the wrong place to be asking, could someone suggest a better
>>>alternative?
>>>
>>
>>bind-workers at isc.org is probably a better place.
>>I'm not saying whether or not this is a good idea.
>>
>>Danny
>>
>>
>>>thanks in advance,
>>>Mike
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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