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Re: [webmin-devel] djbdns/tinydns suppport for virtualmin?
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From: Jamie C. <jca...@we...> - 2008-08-08 20:58:01
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I'd suggest another variable, just in case someone has both a BIND and djbdns domain enabled for the same virtual server (crazy as that sounds :-) Perhaps name is djbdns_submode - Jamie On 08/Aug/2008 13:52 John Gray wrote .. > I see the bind code uses dns_submode to denote this. > > I guess the question is this: Better for the tinydns code to use the > same var, or another one? > > John > > Jamie Cameron wrote: > > 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 > >> > >> -- > >> John Gray gr...@ag... > >> AgoraNet, Inc. (302) 224-2475 > >> 314 E. 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