FW: BIND plugin

[Kevin Darcy]

Or just use Dynamic Update...

                                                                            -
Kevin

Adrian Stovall wrote:

> 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.