Re: [webmin-l] Problem editing Virtualmin created dns zones

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

On 31/Aug/2006 14:28 Jony Hudson wrote ..
> Jamie Cameron <jcameron <at> webmin.com> writes:
> 
> > 
> > On 31/Aug/2006 04:58 Jony Hudson wrote ..
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > >  I've ran into a problem with Webmin/Virtualmin that I can't seem to
> solve!
> > > I'm
> > > using Virtualmin to create virtual servers, which all goes very smoothly.
> > > Virtualmin is, as per its default configuration, creating dns zones
> for
> > > the
> > > newly created servers. It puts these zones in ".hosts" files in the
> /etc/bind
> > > directory which are included by named.conf.local.
> > > 
> > > So far, so good. My problem is that I'm unable to edit these zones
> with
> > > Webmin.
> > > They don't show up at all on the webmin Servers->Bind page. Is it possible
> > > that
> > > Webmin doesn't follow Bind "file" directives? Can anybody suggest a
> solution
> > > so
> > > that I can edit these zones from Webmin (I want to be able to add A
> records
> > > to
> > > the zones).
> > > 
> > > I'm running the latest versions of webmin and virtualmin.
> > > 
> > > Many thanks in advance,
> > 
> > Hi Jony,
> > Is the problem that the zones don't show up at all on the main page of
> > the BIND module, or that they do show up but with no records in them?
> If
> > it is the latter, try clicking on the 'Edit Records File' icon, and checking
> > the path at the top of the page that appears to see if it is correct..
> 
> Hi Jamie, thanks for the reply.
> 
> They just don't show up at all in the BIND module. I've taken a look at
> the .hosts files and the named.conf.local file and I don't see anything obviously
> wrong with them (read something in the archives about malformed configs).
> BIND is giving the right answers when queried.

Does the zone actually exist in the named.conf or named.conf.local ?
If it is in named.conf.local , is there a directive in named.conf like :

include "/etc/named.conf.local";

Using the full path to named.conf.local ?

> Perhaps it's time to finally learn something about perl and be less helpless!

A good idea .. assuming you can understand my horrible Webmin code :)

 - Jamie