Re: Bind8 and templates...

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Adam Goldstein wrote:
> 
> I was hoping the new $INCLUDE command from Bind would have been
> supported by webmin by now.. It's not very main stream, and it should
> be.
> 
> You can keep everything from the serial number straight down through all
> the MX, NS and main addresses in it, and just make one change and
> 1-gazillion domains are updated automatically.
> 
> BTW, is $INCLUDE in BIND 8 at all, or just BIND 9? I could not find that
> info easily...heck i can't find much info on $INCLUDE anywhere, it was
> pure chance I stumbled on it before.
> 
> I host about 180 domains between my hosting and a friend, and it's a big
> pain when we need to change an NS record or main IP address for nearly
> every one.

$INCLUDE is definately supported. You can put something like

$INCLUDE /var/named/common.hosts

in any zone file to share records between multiple zones.
However, if you are doing this then you should make sure to
use only relative records like

www	IN	A	1.2.3.4

or

	IN	MX	5 mail.blah.com.

Otherwise it won't work. The catch is that webmin always
converts relative names to absolute one, so if you edit
a record that is included into multiple domains it will
be messed up.

 - Jamie