Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:54:51 -0700 From: "mike" <mike@coloradosurf.com> To: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Len Conrad" <LConrad@Go2France.com> Subject: Re: DNS Tools - Zone File Creation Message-ID: <001601c07a97$94cd3260$020110ac@c769378a.lakwod3.co.home.com> References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010107082319.0522d9e0@mail.Go2France.com>
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Len,
I looked again in my copy of DNS/BIND (rather tattered despite how clueless
I feel) and did not find adequate examples the proper use of the $INCLUDE
statement you referenced. I have a script that copies a 'master' zone file
and makes the necessary substitutions (serial,domain, and IP which is only
one of a couple ip's) for new virtually hosted domains. My company hosts
150-200 domains and therefore has 150-200 zone files. This way would seem to
clean things up quite a bit. Could you (please) show me an example of it's
proper use (or refer me to some location that does)? I have pasted below
what should be pretty close to the master we use. From your post, I believe
I should be able to get down to 3-5 zone files.
TIA,
mike
#domain#. IN SOA #ns1#. webmaster.#domain#. (
#date#
10800
3600
604800
86400 )
#domain#. IN NS #ns1#.
#domain#. IN NS #ns2#.
#domain#. IN A #ipaddress#
www.#domain#. IN CNAME #domain#.
#domain#. IN MX 1 #domain#.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Len Conrad" <LConrad@Go2France.com>
To: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: DNS Tools - Zone File Creation
>
> >I manage all my zones manually and don't mind. I do a search and replace
in
> >vi. However, I have to create a number of zone files all in one go and
was
> >wondering if anyone has any scripts to create the zone files.
>
> If you use the $INCLUDE of BIND8, you can greatly simplify the zone
> files and errors and maintenance.
>
> And if you do a lot of virtual www/ftp/smtp hosting where many
> domains have the same ip's (A records) for their www/ftp services and
> you have one or two mail servers with virtual mail hosts, then you
> can often use just one zone file for any number of separate domains.
>
> I helped one ISP upgrade 150 zones from W2K DNS to BIND8, and with
> the above techniques, I reduced his zone files to just 4. No enough
> of zone files bothering to develop a script for. Adding a new zone
> for him was just duplicating a line in his named.conf with no
> modification of the common zone file.
>
> Len
>
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