Re: [webmin-devel] djbdns/tinydns suppport for virtualmin?

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

On 08/Aug/2008 13:21 John Gray wrote ..
> Hi Jamie,
> 
> I took the powerdns module, and used to it from template to setting up 
> module for tinydns.  I have it working now (though it needs some config 
> work yet).

Awesome! If it's OK, you should make it publicly available when it is done..
I know several people have expressed interest in djbdns due to it's lower
memory use.

> As I was working on it, I came across a big question.  Sometimes we add 
> aliases to existing domains to into already existing domain, for instances.
> 
> we add
> foo.com, then add an alias for it as foo.bar.com, and bar.com is an 
> existing domain on the server.  With that foo.bar.com is added as new 
> domain, instead of entry for foo being added to bar.com.
> 
> I was toying with the idea of checking to see if a higher-level domain 
> is there, so for example if I am adding
> a.b.c.d I'd check for b.c.d, then c.d, then d.  If I find one of them, 
> then I'd add entries to it, instead of creating a new domain.
> 
> But I wondered if that would screw up other things?

That is a perfectly reasonable approach - in fact, Virtualmin already does
this for BIND when you add a sub-domain. You just have to make sure your
code keeps track of whether the djbdns domain was added as a real zone or
just as entries in an existing zone. The best way is to set some key in the
domain hash passed to the feature_setup function, which will be saved and
available when feature_modify and feature_delete are called.

 - Jamie

> Sound like a good idea or bad?
> 
> Thanks
> John
> 
> Jamie Cameron wrote:
> > On 02/Aug/2008 09:36 John Gray wrote ..
> >> There doesn't appear to be any tinydns support for virtualmin (or did I 
> >> overlook it)?
> >>
> >> With recent events, I think I've had enough of bind.
> >>
> >> I'm not very concerned with configuring tinydns as much as just the day 
> >> to day issues of adding/deleting domains/entries.  Tinydns has cmd line 
> >> utilities for doing all this, so I would imagine it would be fairly easy 
> >> to write a module to do it.  But I don't want to invent the wheel.
> >>
> >> If nothing exists, I'll create one ala the exim module (basicly just 
> >> what I need to facilitate adding/deleting/modifing virtual servers in 
> >> virtualmin).
> > 
> > Hi John,
> > 
> > At the moment, there is no support for tinydns or djbdns in Virtualmin.
> > However, it's plugin architecture would make this pretty easy to add -
> > for example, I did one for PowerDNS a while ago that can be used instead
> > of the regular BIND feature. 
> > 
> > You can get it from :
> > http://www.webmin.com/cgi-bin/search_third.cgi?search=powerdns
> > and check out the source.
> > 
> >  - Jamie
> 
> 
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