$GENERATE or $EXEC?

[Tani Hosokawa]

Sounds like a nice way to bloat the server... if you want to do
time-of-day changes to DNS, use a cron job.  I can understand $INCLUDE
directives, but $EXEC... ick.

On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Andr Pirard wrote:

> Even more interesting than $GENERATE would be an
> $EXEC <filename> <parameters>
> that would use the standard output of a script as input to BIND.
> For example, it would be especially useful in a configuration file
> defining many zones. A simple "if" in a script used much like an
> $INCLUDE file would output zone definitions as master or slaves
> depending the particular host the script runs on.
> Allowing some programmed extensions to BIND much more easily than
> preprocessing, this $EXEC would even bring fun to such things like
> reloading the server with different data according to the time of the
> day.
> 
> Best regards,

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tani hosokawa
river styx internet