Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 17:28:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.magicnet.net> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS scripts Message-ID: <199904302128.RAA34942@bilver.magicnet.net> In-Reply-To: <00a101be9331$df8b9520$f9fbf8cf@megared.net.mx> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Alejandro_Ram=EDrez?= at "Apr 30, 1999 12:50: 2 pm"
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Alejandro Ramírez recently said: > You should check this page http://www.webmin.com , the webmin > software its a very good pakage to manage your server by more than > one person, it let you give priviledges to users to configure > services, I think it does what you want, and it does it with a web > interface. I brought up Webmin a bit ago and it is used only for one of the staff to enter new users. Since it's graphic they feel more comfortable using that than the adduser functions. They can go back and fix soemthing easily. > ----- Original Message ----- From: Deepwell Internet > <freebsd@deepwell.com> To: <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, > April 30, 1999 12:25 PM Subject: DNS scripts > > Hello, We are the primary name server for quite a few domains. > > Some are hosted by us, and some have web/mail hosting through > > customers of ours (co-locations). Up until recently all of our > > DNS administration was done manually by editing the zone files > > and doing a named.restart. This situation has a large room for > > error. > > How are other freeBSD-based ISP's handling administration of > > DNS by more than one person? Is there a good tool for doing > > this? Mainly I'm looking for something that will update the > > PTR records automatically, update the serial number, and do a > > general sanity check. DNS by more than one person can sticky all by itself, can it not? For sanity checks I always use nslint. I have my reverse records in the main namedb directory, along with the A records for our domain. All the others are in a sub-directory called 'sites'. (Not a clever name but it works). Each of those has the A records, MX records, etc. Also is an $INCLUDE statement to pull in a file called named.soa. That way I have only 1 serial number to update. I found that using the webmin took more time, and unless you modify the scripts, it will set up DNS in a manner different than what I like. I also have a preconfigured 'dummy' file for the A and MX records, and just copy that an do a global replace to make a new record. However I don't fit the normal way of doing things as the main changes are routing tables as blocks of IPs get routed somewhhere for a week and then get moved a bit later. I have lots of comments in the DNS files, something that you really should do if you have multiple people working on it. A 'wc' in the namedb directroy comes out at about 12000 lines. On the short blocks comments and addresses are about the same. Since I've started using nslint religiously I've never had a problem. -- bv@wjv.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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