Re: [webmin-l] Bind Module Request

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

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 21:16, axses wrote:
> Hello Jamie
> 
> Thanks for your update to the ACL for the Bind Module. I have not been 
> able to try it out yet as my master server uses Gentoo and I have to 
> wait for the devs to catch up and build an ebuild. I have another 
> request/query.
> 
> For a master Zone, is it possible to hide the button "apply changes" 
> (for that zone) until the zone file is created using the button "apply 
> changes" in the zone file list section.
> 
> For example when creating a new zone, a user can easily be confused and 
> click the "apply changes" button thinking that his zone will be created. 
> Apply changes will send a notify to the slaves, but they will respond 
> with "not authoritve for that zone" and create an empty zone file or 
> something similar.
> 
> At the moment it is a bit awkward to teach the users that they cannot 
> press "apply changes" after creating a new master zone, and have to 
> instead go back to the Bind module index to press "apply changes" there 
> instead so that the zone file gets created and pushed to the slave 
> servers. I believe this will also be the case for a standalone DNS 
> server also.
> 
> Thanks for listening.

The 'Apply Changes' button on the zone page should actually work even
after the zone has just been created although. It first tries to do an 
ndc reload whatever.com  , but if that fails it will run  ndc reconfig  
which should tell BIND to re-read the entire config file, and thus pick
up the new domain.

 - Jamie