How do you guys keep your zones up to date?

[Ryan McCain]

Willing to share you ndns script?

Ryan


>>> On Mon, Oct 1, 2007 at 12:16 AM, in message <47008297.2000204 at stercomm.com>,
Chris Cox <chris_cox at stercomm.com> wrote: 
> Ryan McCain wrote:
>> Sorry to be a dead horse but just curious how you guys update your zones?
>> 
>> 1) A tool such as Men & Mice
>> 2) good ole vi
>> 3) customer scrips
>> 4) other
> 
> I run my zones dynamically now.  We have a script we use.
> 
> Examples:
> ndns add a newhost 192.168.1.4
> ndns add cname myhost newhost.mydomain.com
> ndns del a newhost 192.168.1.4
> ndns del cname myhost newhost.mydomain.com
> etc..
> 
> Our script handles ptr records automatically, though you
> can prevent that behavior, and you can get an interactive
> view into what it is going to do before it does it.  We
> have also added IPv6 functionality at least for A records.
> 
> Tool was designed to make it web embeddable, though we
> don't use it that way today.  However we do have
> our DNS entries available through our intranet for folks
> that like to browse through entries using a web browser.
> 
> For initial zone db creation we have a couple of scripts
> that generate the named.conf (both master and slave) and
> the empty zone files into a staging area.