Best practice of remote-management

[Chris Pile]

Have a look at this solution:
http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Apache-DnsZone

I haven't tried it but looks interesting, may be worth getting involved
with.

Chris.

Kevin Darcy wrote:
> 
> For file transfer, some folks recommend rsync over ssh.
> 
> For reconfig/reload of the nameservers remotely, you could go to BIND 9 and use
> rndc.
> 
> - Kevin
> 
> Webservice wrote:
> 
> > Problem:
> > - Want to update/add/delete zonefiles from a mysql database to
> > primary/secondary nameservers which only run Bind-8.
> > - I don't want to run a webserver on the nameservers (perhaps mysql)
> >
> > Solutions:
> > Well, I thought of couple ideas ans surfed the web (grabbed here and there
> > some sources), but the most sources is for running nameservers and
> > webservers on the same machine.
> >
> > I already have a separate machine where all info for the domains is stored
> > in mysql (mx, cnames, nameservers, webserver).
> > So it's not so hard to build the zone-files and named.conf from that
> > database, but then what?
> >
> > - Sending the namefiles through FTP and restart Bind with a cron (or an open
> > port)
> > - Using NFS (over a private 192.168-network)
> > - Upgrading/patching bind (rather not but if it's a good solution)
> >
> > Has anyone a good idea for this?