Bind8 and templates...

[Jason P. <ja...@wk...>]

I must be missing the boat on using templates with bind8 in webmin.
For me they just look like they wouldn't work right.  

I'll explain what I'm seeing and maybe someone here can tell me where
I am going wrong.

On the Zone defaults page I fill in...

The record name I just pick a name say.. test
I select the type of name server
Then I fill in the value (selecting from form) of NS.MYMAINDNS.COM.

It does create template record but of...

test	IN	NS	NS.MYMAINDNS.COM.

So for the new record created that just doesn't look right to me.

test would get the value test.newdomain.com. (the name of the domain)  
tacked on dynamically by bind on lookups.  That value would be best left
blank but the template saver wouldn't let it be blank.

So what am I missing here?  

It would a nice feature to be able to add $INCLUDE in the templates
section.  For one it would allow those templates to work a bit more
dynamically if changes are needed.  Update one file and all the other
zones get changed as well.  Of course you have the serial numbers to
increment.  That could be either a script to update the serial numbers
or another $INCLUDE to hold the zone serial number and other info...

Thanks,

Jason Portwood 
ja...@wk...