Zone setup read from directory?

[Cricket Liu]

> Is there a way I can specify in the named.conf to allow bind to read a
> directory for the zone information?
> 
> eg:
> 
> I have a directory /etc/named/ with all my zone configuration files
> 
> I want to specify something like:
> 
> options {
> 	directory "/etc/named";
> 	allow-transfer {none; }
> };
> 
> zone "*" {
> 	type master;
> 	file "*";
> }
> 
> Is this possible so that I can add a record file and not have to tell
> named.conf about it?..  (I just figured out that apache can do this
> <grin>, im hoping bind 9.* can do the same.  It would make updates and
> adding new zone files SOO much easier.

No, no version of BIND supports this.

cricket

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