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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
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- Subject: Re: Maintaining DNS resource records for sites with many hosts
- Keywords: bind
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.011025.3429@spdcc.com>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 01:10:25 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Sep1.011025.3429
- References: <1992Aug31.163615.16509@tc.cornell.edu>
- Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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- In article <1992Aug31.163615.16509@tc.cornell.edu> kakazu@cornell.edu writes:
- >I would like to see if anyone has developed a front end for maintaining
- >resource records that named uses, particularly for sites that have many
- >hosts.
- >
- >What we do is maintain a file in hosts.txt format (RFC 952), which is
- >sucked in nightly by a bunch of scripts which produce files with the
- >records. This has been working fine for several years, but it is less
- >than forgiving for typos, error checking illegal addresses, etc.
- >I think this method is fine if you don't have many hosts, but we are
- >now approaching several thousand hosts.
- >
- >I would like to find some type of user friendly front end where one
- >could input the DNS info, do some error checking, and have the resource
- >record files automagically generated.
-
- DECathena uses its service management system, Moira, as a front end
- for generating input to BIND. This feature will be available in the
- next (1.1) release.
-
- Of course, DECathena/Moira is a bit more than you might need, since
- it also deals with maintaining users, groups, file systems, printcap
- files, and an armslength of other info which an installation needs
- to keep track of.
-
-
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- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
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