Re: [webmin-l] Record Generator dialog not honoring $ORIGIN

[Robert M. <rg...@ht...>]

At 11:40 PM 4/4/2006, Jamie Cameron wrote:
>On 4/Apr/2006 21:09 Robert Moskowitz wrote ..
> > When I use the Edit Records File option for BIND, I can see the
> > records I originally coded by hand:
> >
> > $ORIGIN                       78.84.65.client.htt-consult.com.
> > 192                   IN      A       65.84.78.192
> > $GENERATE 195-197 $ A 65.84.78.$
> > $GENERATE 199-203 $ A 65.84.78.$
> > ...
> >
> > In the Records Generator panel if I click on Show Generated Records,
> > I get entries like:
> >
> > 195.htt-consult.com A Default 65.84.78.195.htt-consult.com
> >
> > Note that the 'client' subdomain got left out.
> >
> > I do not see a $ORIGIN panel.  So I am concerned about editing this
> > zone file other than via the Edit Records File.
> >
> > And I wonder about this, as the $ORIGIN approach is how Cricket has
> > it in his BIND book (and he had an error that a number of us 
> pointed out)....
>
>This is really a bug in Webmin, but fortunately only a cosmetic one.
>That 'Show Generated Records' page is my attempt to emulate what BIND does
>when creating records from a $generate statement, however it doesn't take
>any previous $origin lines into account. This doesn't actually effect the
>real records that BIND generates though..
>
>I will see if this can be fixed in a future Webmin release.

Thanks.  I was worried that when I would make a change in this zone, 
the $ORIGIN records would disappear...

I see that they did not.


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