From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 4 8:29:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cartman.techsupport.co.uk (cabletel1.cableol.net [194.168.3.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13F1637B43F for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 08:29:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ceri@techsupport.co.uk) Received: from ceri by cartman.techsupport.co.uk with local (Exim 3.22 #2) id 14vhZ5-0000fT-00; Fri, 04 May 2001 16:32:19 +0100 Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 16:32:19 +0100 From: Ceri To: Wayne Pascoe Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Purpose of serial number in zone files (BIND) Message-ID: <20010504163219.A2083@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> References: <20010504163252.D50786@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> <20010504160732.A1139@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:17:32PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:17:32PM +0100, Wayne Pascoe said: > Ceri writes: > > > Sounds interesting - how are you planning to do that ? > > We've got 2 options at the moment. I'm leaning towards two just > personally, because then it becomes easier to build tools for. I'm not sure why you'd want to do this - is this not reinventing the wheel ? With either of the two options below aren't you introducing single points of failure that the master/slave situation was designed to avoid ? With either of these you've still got to change a file somehow ... > 1. Keep authoritative master copies of all zone files in CVS. > > 2. Option 2. Maintain a database with one table per zone file. Ceri -- We've tried this God stuff long enough. It's time for a change. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message