[bind10-dev] Zone loading requirements, take 1

[Shane Kerr]

Peter,

On Monday, 2012-03-05 21:22:53 +0100, 
Peter Koch <pk at DENIC.DE> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 07:58:06PM +0100, Shane Kerr wrote:
> 
> > $ b10-zoneloader example.com.zone
> > 
> > And BIND 10 should be able to figure out that I am loading
> > example.com if it is unambiguous from context. (This is an
> > annoyance of mine from
> 
> well, you better hope that no new TLD named "zone" will be applied
> for. Seriously, I think this way lies madness.  There are so many
> conventions for filenames , the infamous db.* included, that more
> guessing does not necessarily increase stability.

I didn't mean to use ".zone" as a standard file name, although you're
right, using file name for this doesn't make sense. I've updated the
requirement to do this guessing (3.2.6) to remove any reference to file
name.

We should still be able to use the SOA to figure out the zone name, if
an absolute name is specified.

> > This might be scope creep, but I think it is not too hard and would
> > be nice.
> 
> That said, being able to specify a mapping between zone name and
> file name ( as in "zone/%f", "db.%f", or "%f.zone" might help
> sources with lots of zones - but at the same time they could
> automate the maintenance of the config file, keeping the guessing
> magic outside the name server.

Hm... interesting idea. I've added this to our IdeaDump page:

http://bind10.isc.org/wiki/IdeaDump

If you want I can remove it, of course, or make it anonymous. ;)

Cheers,

--
Shane