Configuration from files

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:16:32 +0100,
Anand Buddhdev <anandb at ripe.net> wrote:

> If I copy the entire b10-config.db over, then server-specific
> configuration, such as the IP addresses it has to listen on, would be
> wrong. In BIND 9, I have a server-specific named.conf, which uses the
> "include" directive to load in zone definitions, which can be identical
> across multiple servers. BIND 10 wants to keep all configuration in
> b10-config.db, so I can't see a way of doing includes.

Right, so regrettably BIND 10 in its current form can't allow you to
do what you want.

> > Out of curiosity, do these servers only load zones from a copied file
> > (not via zone transfers)?  Do they accept AXFR/IXFR queries?
> 
> I'm sorry I wasn't clear. The zones on these servers are configured as
> slaves, so they do in fact XFR the zones in. [...]
> 
> Instead, if the provisioning system just generates files containing zone
> definitions, then I can have them synced out using
> cfegine/puppet/ansible and call reconfig.

Okay, understood.  Zone configuration is one of big open issues, and
we know we need to do a lost more to support various operational
environments.  Again, we currently don't have a specific planned
release for such improvements, but hopefully we can make it gradually
more usable.

Thanks,

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.