dynamic updates and zone files

[Pete Ehlke]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:10:15PM +0100, mkes at ra.rockwell.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to setup a dynamic updates on my BIND 9 server. There some 
> aspects that are not clear to me.
> I have some machines with fixed IP addresses (servers, workstations) and a 
> set of adresses that are reserved for dynamic assignment from DHCP server. 
> All the machines should belong to one domain. 
> The BIND documentation says that zone files with dynamic updates shouldn't 
> be edited by hand. So how should I setup the BIND configuration if I want 
> to be able to add new machines with fixed IP addresses by hand and have 
> the dynamic updates working? I assume there is no possibility to split 
> zone file for one domain into 2 ?
> 
Once you enable dynamic updates on a zone, the zone file belongs to the
daemon, not to the administrator. You can do manual updates using
nsupdate, or whip up a little perl script using Net::DNS. The level of
paranoia and error checking that you should build in to such a script is
something you need to work out for yourself.

-P