Purging dynamic zones

[Kevin Darcy]

Robert.Weber at Colorado.EDU wrote:

> Hello,
>         I'm using Bind 8.2.2P5 on a solaris box and tring to make a
> dynamic zone for W2K to use.  We have choosen to manage A,MX,CNAME,HINFO
> records through one of our existing tools and use a perl script to make
> the dynamic updates.  One problem seem to be getting me.  The Zone is
> updated nightly from a database program used by 50+ admins accross the
> campus.  The way I'm doing the updates now is with a:
>
> prereq yxrrset pita.ad.colorado.edu. in a
> update delete  pita.ad.colorado.edu. in a
>
> prereq yxrrset pita.ad.colorado.edu. in hinfo
> update delete pita.ad.colorado.edu. in HINFO
>
> update add  pita.ad.colorado.edu. 85000 in A 128.138.196.83
> update add pita.ad.colorado.edu. 85000 in HINFO   "various" " "
>
> For the Host pita, making sure that it's a,HINFO records are always
> fresh.  The problem comes when someone changes pita's name to gyros and
> the the a and HINFO records for pita are stuck in the zone since no
> record of "pita" exists once the name is changed.  Is there any way to
> "purge" all the A records, MX records, etc. from a dynamic zone so it can
> be re-built from scratch?  If so I could purge and rebuild the zone
> nightly rather than trying to make another program that gets all the
> deleted and changed hostnames from a days work and cleans up.

The "old-fashioned" way would be to nightly rewrite an $INCLUDE file, bump
the zone serial, and then tell named to reload the zone. This won't work, of
course, if there are other records in the zone which need to be updated
dynamically.


- Kevin