name server zone list

Chris Buxton cbuxton at menandmice.com
Fri Apr 3 18:01:09 UTC 2009


On Apr 3, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Todd Snyder wrote:
>> BIND already creates an internal view "_bind" with class CH to  
>> contain
>> the zones version.bind, hostname.bind, authors.bind, etc. I was  
>> thinking
>> in >terms of zones.bind living there as well.
>>
>> Of course there's the barber-shaving question: should zones.bind
>> contain an entry describing itself?
>
> My view would be that it should list every zone being answered for by
> the server, so it should include itself.  Maybe it could be
> prefixed/suffixed/named in a pattern so it can be removed easily  
> from a
> listing, but I know I'd like to be able to see every zone being loaded
> on my server (including empty zones).

I agree with Rick Dicaire that this should not be done as a zone at  
all. Instead, this should be implemented in rndc. I do agree with the  
premise that it would be nice to be able to have a list of all zones  
on the server.

Chris Buxton
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