Zonefile, DDNS and an include statement - 2nd try

Xchr at gmx.net Xchr at gmx.net
Wed Aug 20 12:20:34 UTC 2008


Looks like my email got screwed on its way... 

Alan_Clegg at isc.org answered to me:
>I have no idea what you asked (what encoding was it?), but, based on the subject, no, you can't have a $INCLUDE in a dynamic zone.

No way? Absolutely? Damn... then i gotta do that some other way... thanks anyway

>Hi!
> 
>My company wants to update the old internal dns-server to the newest version of bind. We are also >planning to use a new management tool for our zonefiles.
> 
>My plan was the following: This tool writes all static entries into a file, which is included into the zonefile via an $include statement. That's working perfectly fine....
>As long as there are no DDNS-updates. Once the DHCP makes an update, bind has to rewrite the zonefile. At this point, the included file (with all the statics) is dumped into the main zonefile and the include statement is erased.
>
>With this behaviour i cannot seperate static and dynamic leases. Using seperate Zones is not an option (we got 6000 Windows PCs and 5000 static entries).
>
>Does anyone know how to turn off the dumping behaviour? I didn't even find any hint about that feature (not a bug, i guess) on the internet
>
>Thanks,
>Christian Melbinger
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