I think you've valid points in this, the stuff I'm coding on is using dynamic updates, right now I'm mainly looking at the regexp stuff to validate user input via a web-ui. Surely when using dynamic updates you will have an error thrown at you if you give incorrect input but I believe it would be a better thing if the tool itself gave this to prevent sending incorrect data to begin with.
/Jonathan On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Kevin Darcy <[email protected]> wrote: > Jonathan Petersson wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I got some time over so I decide to hack a bit on a DNS management >> tool for my home-server. >> >> I'm curious as to wether someone knows of a list of regexps that can >> be used to match RR's. >> > > I'm not sure why a DNS management tool would be in the business of > "matching" RRs textually. The most popular methods these days for generating > and updating zone data appear to be a) Dynamic Update, b) h2n (which > converts a "hosts" file into zone files, under fairly sophisticated > configuration control), or c) backend database. None of these methods > entails parsing the contents of a zone file as input, except perhaps > initially as a way to import legacy zone files into the new management tool > (and in my opinion, the same thing could be accomplished more cleanly by > AXFR'ing the contents of the zones instead of parsing the zone files). > > Managing DNS by manipulating zone files textually is, in my opinion, a dead > end. I tried that over a decade ago and it was just too much of a headache > and I had to switch methodologies. > > - Kevin > > _______________________________________________ > bind-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users > _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
