bind9-users Digest V5 #155

[Jean Tourrilhes]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 11:14:42AM +0200, Sten Carlsen wrote:
> Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> 
> >
> >	Simple. If the file exist, you include it. If it doesn't, you
> >don't. DHCP and PPP make sure that they create and destroy those files
> >as needed.
> >	If both files exist, the first file take precendence and the
> >other definitions are added at the end, like if you were merging both
> >files.
> >	If you really want to be fancy, you can also use conditional
> >blocks, to make some part of the config conditional to an interface
> >beeing up. But, I don't think this is needed for the DHCP and PPP
> >case, this is more for the static config case.
> >	As I say, my proposal doesn't give you a complete solution,
> >working out of the box, but it offer hooks so that, in conjunction
> >with other scripts (PPP, DHCP, other), you can build the perfect
> >solution.
> >
> > 
> >
> Do you propose things to look like xinet.d with the includedir 
> statement? In that setup it might be much easier to avoid the messyness 
> of having everything mixed up in the same directory.

	Currently, I only have "include", which point to a single file
(absolute path, the file can be wherever you want). I could add an
"includedir" statement.
	Note that most likely my proposal is dead in the water because
Mark doesn't answer me.

> Best regards
> 
> Sten Carlsen

	Jean