[TriLUG] BIND and redhat-config-bind questions

[Ryan Leathers]

OK thanks for the link.  I went ahead and used the Redhat-config-bind
tool on a virgin RH8.0 system and have successfully moved the primary
master role to this box.  Although it's a bit less flexible (you have to
use an include file to do less common stuff) it is working just fine and
its really easy for my gui-loving sysadmins to edit host records.

I was stumped briefly by the interface when trying to assign NS records
for servers in other zones - but a bit of patience and reason carried
the day.
Next step - figure out how to keep this running when I move to a
chroot'ed environment... any comments welcome.

Ryan



-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Portzer [mailto:jeremyp at pobox.com]
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 3:39 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] BIND and redhat-config-bind questions

On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 15:14, Ryan Leathers wrote:
> I am looking for a way to let my VI impaired co-workers easily modify
> DNS records.
> For the most part they only need to add and remove individual host
> records.
> It looks to me like the gui Redhat-config-bind tool might be the
ticket.
>
> Questions:
> For those of you who use this tool regularly - any gotchas ?
> I assume you don't have to stop and start the named service every time
> you make a change with this tool
> Do you need to use this tool exclusively ?  I read a doc that warned
not
> to edit named.conf by hand when using Redhat-bind-tool. 
> With a running BIND can you simply install the tool rpm and start
using
> it or do you need to rebuild your zones using the tool ?
>

Hi Ryan,

I have not used this tool myself, but many of your questions are
answered here in Red Hat's documentation:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/ch-
bindconf.html

You do need to use the tool exclusively (same rule applies to the
redhat-config-httpd tool for Apache).

--Jeremy

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