From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 29 12:45:16 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA28670 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 12:45:16 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA28664 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 12:45:14 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA15235; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 12:40:04 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199509291940.MAA15235@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: option GATEWAY and DNS To: pete@puffin.pelican.com (Pete Carah) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 12:40:04 -0700 (MST) Cc: shorty@iii.net, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Pete Carah" at Sep 29, 95 00:58:00 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 919 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > If the times in the SOA are reasonable *and* you remember to update the > SOA serial number whenever you update any contents (I forget remarkably > often :-(, then (and only then) it is automatic. I typically use CVS or SCCS (depending on the box) to maintain DNS. I use a makefile to update the serial number YYMMDDXX so up to 100 changes a day are OK. The makefile also restarts the daemons. It's a pretty trivial method of doing things. Generally, I use a tree based on address inverse map hierarchy and logical subnetting (one SOA per subnet/logical subnet per tree level. Maybe we need a net administration utility that knows about setting up the various legal net/subnet configurations and maintaining the DNS correctly... I'm not volunteering for this one, though. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.