[35474] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: DNS - Bind database
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Batchelor)
Fri Mar 9 14:31:28 2001
From: "Mike Batchelor" <mikebat@tmcs.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 11:21:37 -0800
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> I'm looking for a database to drive creation of the BIND config and zone
> files. I've been doing it for years myself, but have turned it over to
> Customer Service, who cannot seem to get the concept of
> maintaining forward
> and reverse mapping. I run BIND 8 on Solaris, so something that
> runs under
> Solaris (not MickeySoft) is preferable. Both web and local shell database
> modification is definitely a plus. I'd rather not reinvent the wheel by
> programming this myself.
The tinydns authoritative dns server from Bernstein's djbdns package allows
you to create A and PTR records with a single entry in the data file, like
so:
=host.domain.com:1.2.3.4
See http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html. See also http://www.djbdns.org for some
LDAP and SQL backends for djbdns.
>
> Dave
>
> -----------
>
> David Hares
> Director, Network Engineering
>
> NetworkTwo Communications Phone: 734.827.3620
> 650 KMS Place FAX: 734.827.3690
> Ann Arbor, MI 48108 Email:
> dhares@networktwo.net
>
>
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