Configuration from files

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:48:16 +0100,
Anand Buddhdev <anandb at ripe.net> wrote:

> I've been playing with BIND 10 to try and see how I might be able to use
> it on some of our servers.
> 
> We currently use BIND 9. Our BIND 9 configuration is maintained in a
> single place, and distributed by CFengine. If we change the
> configuration, or add/remove zones, the new files are copied into place,
> and CFengine called "rndc reconfig".
> 
> I looked through the BIND 10 documentation, but can't find anything to
> indicate if I can do something similar with it. For us, it's not
> practical to use bindctl to set configuration settings for a few
> thousand zones.

It could depend on details of your operation and configuration, but in
my understanding BIND 10 currently doesn't have sufficient user
interfaces to make it possible.  Improving the operation interface is
one of our TODOs, but right now we don't have a specific planned
release for that feature.

One thing that might be acceptable is to (re)distribute the
b10-config.db file to the deployed server hosts and restart BIND 10.

Out of curiosity, do these servers only load zones from a copied file
(not via zone transfers)?  Do they accept AXFR/IXFR queries?

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.