[bind10-dev] Data source configuration

[Michal 'vorner' Vaner]

Hello

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:22:58AM -0700, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote:
> - In either approach, I'm not sure whether we can reasonably hardcode
>   the matching strategy as part of configuration, because it could be
>   application specific: auth allows partial match, but others
>   generally don't.  Also, in our current API, "partial match" can only
>   happen for findZone(); others only look for an exact match.

Hmm, good point. So we may want do have two matching lists depending not on
auth/not-auth but on type of matching. The semantics need to be thought about a
little bit, yes.

Would it work if we had two lists, one for partial match one for exact match?

Or, if it would be the single list, have something like (not giving the exact
names):
 • Stop if you got an exact match.
 • Stop if you got an exact match or a partial match and partial one is enough.
 • Stop if you wanted partial match (no matter what you got here).
 • Stop always (I don't know if it is of any practical use, though).

> - Basically I'd like to avoid including specific application like
>   "auth" in the configuration.

ACK, like the above.

> - I was not sure what "slaves" mean in the meta-data-source example.
>   If it means "backend", or at least not related to DNS secondary, I
>   think it's better to use a different term than "slave".

Any name is good for me, I guess. It means the ones the meta is composed of, it
might be sub-sources. I don't know if „backend“ would be nice, because sometime
we talk about „database backend“, so it could cause confusion.

> - I was also not sure about "zonefiles".  Does that mean an
>   RFC1035-style master file for a single zone, or some textual file
>   for a set of zones?

Ah, right. It should have been master files.

Thank you

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Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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