DNS Management

[Eric Calbert]

In article <6194.955054839 at defiant.dfw.nostrum.com>, John Steele wrote:
>From what I've been told from Quadritek, you can use bind 8.2.2 w/ QIP
>w/o a problem, and they have several customers that have elected to do so.

I've done this before but they don't have an option to set the default
TTL so what happens is that there is no seperate value for min ttl
and negative TTL.

Best way to do DNS management IMO in a short period of time is:

	- edit named.conf by hand (get all your logging, access
	lists declared) 
	- at the end of the named.conf include a file that has
	all your zones in it

Generate the second file via script, sql data or whatever.  QIP
has some promise but too many broken features (setting certain
access list options does nothing on the actual named.conf files)
and their support for the latest veresions of bind is always
slower than it should be.  Given it's sql structure it should
be very trivial to add support for $TTL by now.