I've got a mess

[Stewart]

Barry Margolin wrote:

> Many people format their files to make it easy to do things like this.  
> E.g.
> 
> @ IN SOA ns1.company.com. hostmaster.company.com. (
>                      2004041501     ; serial
>                            3600     ; refresh
>                             900     ; retry
>                          604800     ; expire
>                           86400 )   ; minimum
> 
> Then a script can look for "; serial" and modify the serial number on 
> that line.

The way I do it (old habit) is to use a template with a variable to 
generate the header of the zonefile. Said header would have a variable, 
perhaps even something like [ser2004041701] which could be more easily 
found and updated.

When scripting it, I'd go the 'easy way' and just replace the serial 
variable with the date/time string YYYYMMDDHH. Providing I wasn't 
updating zones like a maniac it worked well.

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Stewart Honsberger - http://blackdeath.snerk.org/
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