Distribute named.conf

Leonardo Santagostini lsantagostini at gmail.com
Thu Jan 3 14:41:35 UTC 2013


Hello everybody. I have puppet running in my infraestructure and works like
a charm.

By the way, im using named+dlz and i really have forgotten about zone files
tranfer and things like that.

Hope that help,

Kind regards,

Leonardo Santagostini




2013/1/3 Warren Kumari <warren at kumari.net>

>
> On Jan 3, 2013, at 6:06 AM, Joerg Stephan <johe.stephan at ymail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > we are currently using PowerDNS on our 12 Nameservers. Now we are
> thinking about a migration to bind.
> >
> > So we are seeking a way to distribute the named.conf.x for the several
> zonfiles. Currently this is solved by powerdns via mysql replication. Is
> there any tool in bind we could use. Generating the conf file and syncing
> via ssh/rsync is discussed on our side, and we hoped that there is a
> "nicer" way.
>
> Yup, have a look at Puppet.
>
> For the first while it will seem like way way more work than it is worth
> (and the whole declarative language bit makes my head hurt) but after
> investing a few hours getting things setup you'll wonder how you ever
> managed without it…
> Deploying a new server (or configs, etc to a bunch of servers) suddenly
> becomes trivial...
>
> >
> > Many registrys are testing the dns server if the zone is available
> during the registration. Genrating the new files via cron would cause the
> registration to fail.
>
>
> Setup Puppet to distribute the file, and then have an exec action that
> does:
> rndc addzone example.com '{type master; file "master/example.com"; };'
>
> on master(s) and:
> rndc addzone example.com '{type slave; master 192.0.2.1; };'
> on devices that you have told Puppet are slaves.
>
> After investing the time you'll wonder how you ever managed >2 boxes
> without it…
>
> More more info on Puppet at:
> http://puppetlabs.com/puppet/puppet-open-source/ and
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/
>
> W
>
>
>
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Jörg
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