Metazones or Something Else?

[Brian Cuttler]

rndc addzone sounds like a very interesting tool, but
if you want an automated sync, will require something to
read the source config of the master and then write the
requisit slave zone information for the dns slave server(s).

Offsite slave servers will require a lot of trust.

Rsync solution for onsite servers will result in duplicate
copies of the master or the slave, unless you automate a
wrapper for that too (and I'm inclined to think in terms of
# sed, which I use in a surprising number of my scripts).

On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 05:26:38PM +0000, Evan Hunt wrote:
> > So to the best of your knowledge this functionality is still on drawing
> > board, unless implemented out-of-band?  (i.e. a perl script to parse
> > metazone.zone, and create /etc/named.d/*.conf files)
> 
> Or run "rndc addzone".
> 
> There's currently no supported way to perform in-band zone provisioning
> via the DNS itself.  I do have access to the metazone implementation that
> Vixie wrote his paper about, and I can send it to you if you like, but I'm
> not sure how useful you'll find it.  There might also be some interesting
> tricks possible with DLZ or with redhat's "dynDB" LDAP extension (which we
> plan to include in BIND 9.11 but is currently only available as a set of
> patches).
> 
> Improving DNS provisioning is a hot topic for future development, but
> we're still just in the requirements-gathering phase.  Would you like to
> share what it is you hope to do in more detail?
> 
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