Re: [webmin-l] Bind Module Request

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

That's a good point .. I didn't think of that case.
In the next Webmin release, if you click the Apply button at the zone
level and the zone hasn't been loaded by BIND yet, it will do a full
reconfigure, just as if you clicked the Apply button on the main page.

 - Jamie

On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 01:01, ax...@ax... wrote:
> Yes that is true for a single server.
> 
> I create the zone bindtest.com with 3 default entries. After pressing the
> "apply changes" the zone file does indeed get created.
> After the zone file is created though, the master sends notifies to my slaves.
> They in turn respond with "not authoritive" as they do not have a copy of the
> zone file yet and cannot check the SOA entry.
> 
> Master creates
> Feb 03 23:56:58.925 general: loading configuration from '/etc/bind/named.conf'
> Feb 03 23:56:58.931 general: zone bindtest.com/IN: loaded serial 2006020300
> Feb 03 23:56:58.932 notify: zone bindtest.com/IN: sending notifies (serial
> 2006020300)
> 
> Slaves respond
> 
> Feb 03 16:00:57.502 notify: received notify for zone 'bindtest.com': not
> authoritative
> Feb 03 14:57:09.801 notify: received notify for zone 'bindtest.com': not
> authoritative
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Jamie Cameron (jca...@we...) wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
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