Question regarding dynamic updates

[Chris Cox]

On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 14:59 -0400, Mike Diggins wrote:
> My DNS environment (BIND) consists of a Master Name Server which is 
> updated via a Database. A web page allows for changes, which updates the 
> database, and periodically the database is dumped out to zone files for 
> named, which are read and propagated to my slaves via regular zone 
> transfers.
> 
> My question is about transitioning to Dynamic updates, which I am not yet 
> allowing. We have a number of zones, all updated through the Web interface 
> I describe above. What happens if I want a client to be able to update one 
> of those zones dynamically, while still updating all the static entries in 
> the same zone, via the Web/Database and zone transfers? Is that even 
> possible to update a zone this way, and allow dynamic updates? I can't 
> seem to wrap my head around that. Can someone straighten me out?

Simple... "static" data is entered via nsupdate.  Don't edit your
db files manually.  If you do everything via dynamic updates, then
you're fine and you don't have to segregate your "dynamic" zones
from your "static" zones.