Re: Bind Idea for Webmin

[White W. <whi...@wh...>]

You may be better off using INCLUDE statements and including other 
files... You can also break down the information into multiple INCLUDE 
files so you could have several types of domain "template" like records.

Records specific to each domain are just added to the file normally.  

It's a great way to update tons of domains to a new base IP, or IPs.

Symlinking the domain may work, but, will not allow you to add any extra 
domain specific records.
Plus, you can write the Include statement directly in webmin, where as 
you need to login via shell to add sylinks.

Adding better support for INCLUDE in webmin would be a great help ;)


-- 
Adam Goldstein
White Wolf Networks



Frank Altpeter wrote:

>Hello Richard Teachout !
>
>You wrote on 01.07.2001 05:16:22 -0500:
>
>>How could you design a domain zone file
>>so this would work?
>>for more than 1000 domains? for that matter
>>2 or 3?
>>
>just don't write the domain name in the file itself.
>
>for example:
>------------------------------------------------------
>@	IN	SOA	primary.nameserver.com	hostmaster.domain.com. (
>                2001062901      ;
>                28800           ;
>                7200            ;
>                604800          ;
>                86400           ;
>                )
>
>                IN      NS      ns.domain.com.
>                IN      NS      ns2.domain.com.
>		IN	MX 10	mail
>		IN	MX 20	mail2
>
>mail		IN	A	192.168.0.1
>mail2		IN	A	192.168.0.2
>-------------------------------------------------------
>
>this would be a generic zone file. If this file has filename
>"domain.com", the "@" in the beginning is substituted to it.
>If you then symlink it to "otherdomain.com", this domain would have the
>same information.
>I use this for about 35000 domains on our company nameserver structure.
>
>>I'm fairly experienced with Linux, and run 
>>a number of servers and HUNDREDS of domains,
>>and A file would make it quite a bit easier!
>>
>wow :)
>
>With kind regards,
>
>		Frank Altpeter - Laird Of Glencairn
>