FW: BIND plugin

[Adrian Stovall]

Write a script...

Make a zonefile header, and have a script ping everybody (at a
pre-determined interval) to see who's alive and dump the names of the living
into a text file.  Use the contents of this text file to generate a line to
add to the zone file header (repeat for each living address), and stop
named, copy the new zonefile to the proper location, and restart named.

You don't have to modifiy BIND, you just have to let it know what to tell
everyone.

-----Original Message-----
From: Danny Mayer [mailto:mayer at gis.net]
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 5:27 PM
To: Bong-Gyoune Kim; comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
Subject: Re: BIND plugin



         Define Alive.  If an IP address does not respond, is it dead,
rebooting,
   shutdown, non-existent or what?

                 Danny

At 03:49 PM 2/3/01, Bong-Gyoune Kim wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I am tying to modify BIND so that while resolving host names, BIND can
>return only alive IP addresses in our network. I wander if I have to
>modify BIND source code and recompile them all, or there's a way to
>write a plugin to BIND so that I don't need to redistribute recompiled
>BIND binaray. Should anyone knows about this, please enlighten me.
>
>Thx.