From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 4 8:32: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from d9168.upc-d.chello.nl (d9168.upc-d.chello.nl [213.46.9.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A14437B422 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 08:32:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edwin@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl) Received: by d9168.upc-d.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DF0F12CD; Fri, 4 May 2001 17:32:01 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 17:32:01 +0200 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Wayne Pascoe Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Purpose of serial number in zone files (BIND) Message-ID: <20010504173201.E50786@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Wayne Pascoe , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 wrote: > 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. > > 1. Keep authoritative master copies of all zone files in CVS. When > changing a zone file, check the file out of cvs (locked read only), > change it, check it back in, and then propogate the new file to all > servers using scp. Why don't you let the DNS protocol handle the distribution towards the slaves? Then you only have to worry about the creation on the master. I really don't see the advantages of what you try to accomplish. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://FatalDimensions.nl.eu.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message