[bind10-dev] Zone configuration Re: ddns

[Jelte Jansen]

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On 11/28/2011 02:26 PM, Shane Kerr wrote:
> Michal,
> 
> On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 11:52 +0100, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
>>> - - Naturally it should only work on zones for which we are master, and
>>> the datasource should be writable
>>
>> What is the nice time to globalize zone configuration? Now we have zones
>> scattered all over the config and I don't really remember where exactly they
>> are. The users will get lost in it.
> 
> I think this might make sense, assuming it doesn't expand the scope too
> much. My concern here is that this will create too much work and we
> won't be able to get DDNS out in the next release, which would be
> tragic.
> 

it is also a question of whether you, in the case of 'do ddns for zone
X', you see 'do ddns' as a property of zone X, or zone X as a property
of 'do ddns'.

Or more generally, do you see it as 'I have zone A, with these masters
(and options), these slaves (and options), and these features (with
options)', or 'I am master for these zones, slave for these, and have
feature X for these zones (with options), feature Y for these zones
(with options), etc'.

The latter would fit in more nicely with the extensibility (i hope
someone will someday write some module which does something with zones
that we didn't think of). But yes, it does mean that 'zone' info is
scattered all over the place. Currently it's even more scattered about
than necessary because of the IMO unnecessary zonemgr module, but that
is a different discussion :)

Note that as described in the document Jerry Scharf originally wrote,
these two approaches do not have to exclude each other; you can have the
data tied to where it is needed, and have a translation layer to regroup
it to something with better overview for an administrator. I am not
saying this to handwave the discussion away, but we also shouldn't
ignore the notion :)

Jelte
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