BIND and Loading Zones from a Directory

[LiquidKernel]

Can I have BIND look through a directory for all the zones instead of having to specify each zone in named.conf and it's file location?

Haven't found anything via google.

 

[ameoba]

Dunno... but it'd be fairly simple to dynamically generate part of the conf file based on the contents of the directory...

 

[Xipher]

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Im with him on this one

 

[kerrle]

Yeah, I don't know of a way to get bind to do this, but I could write a script to add all the entries in literally 10 lines of perl.

 

[LiquidKernel]

I guess I will go with that. Or make a script that creates the zone entry and the zone file as well.

Perhaps I can hack at BIND's source a bit to see if I can get it to loop through a directory and then re-write the config.

 

[Xipher]

well, writing all that code into Bind wouldn't be TOO difficult, but then there would be the debugging as well. If you really want to, there is a dns server that uses MySQL as a backend called mydns, might work better as I think it handles edits on the fly, but it also adds DB management which might not be what your looking for.