Is There a Zone Management Tool Similar to Makezones?

[Kevin Darcy]

Why don't you write something that updates the zone data via the Dynamic
Update protocol? Then the serial numbers increment automatically. It
also eliminates the possibility of bug-induced zonefile-munging and
makes your zones more interoperable with DHCP, Active Directory, etc....


- Kevivn

"Martin G. McCormick" wrote:

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>         I want to clarify my original posting asking about  dns
> zone management tools.  I am aware of the named-checkzone utility
> which is part of the bind distribution and which validates the
> zone one is about to load so what I am concerned with is whether
> anyone has already written a tool that automatically writes the
> reverse maps and updates the serial number.  If none such exists,
> I will write that in C and make it use named-checkzone to
> validate the zone.
>
>         It seems that named-checkzone does not appear before
> bind9  so such a utility will mainly be of use to bind9 users
> since bind8 users could only generate their reverse maps and
> update their serial numbers with this proposed tool.
>
>         I certainly hope that named-checkzone or something
> equivalent continues to be apart of the bind distribution since
> it lets one know exactly what will happen if this or that zone
> which one has in a test file is run as the real thing.  Since we
> have always used makezones, I had all but forgotten about
> named-checkzone when I wrote my first message and, of course,
> thought of it after posting.  It makes much more sense to
> incorporate what is already here whenever possible rather than to
> re-en vent the wheel and introduce new bugs.
>
> Martin McCormick