Re: Date not updated in serial number

2024-09-25 Thread Peter Davies
Hi, You can use the "serial-update-method" key-word to define how BIND will update the serial number in a dynamic zone's SOA record. It may be defined within "options", views, and zones. Legal values are "date", "increment", and "unixtime". The default setting is "serial-update-method increm

Date not updated in serial number

2024-09-25 Thread Burn Zero
Hi, I have configured Dynamic DNS in bind and I see the date in the serial number is not getting updated in the recommended format MMDDnn. Yesterday I created the DDNS zone and the serial number was 2024092501 but today when the zone is updated, it just increments to 2024092502 and not 202409

Re: Configuration management of BIND .conf

2024-09-25 Thread John Thurston
Our 'special' zone definitions are less than 10kb (at the moment), so the 64kb limit isn't an issue. And if it ever is, it can be broken up into several 'included' .conf files. The 255-character string limit isn't a problem with base64: base64 -w 250 special.conf | sed 's/^/"/;s/$/"/' | tr -d

Re: Configuration management of BIND .conf

2024-09-25 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
Are you leveraging your existing configuration management tools (e.g. Puppet, Ansible, Chef)? Ansible (my choice of poison) works well for this type of situation I find, particularly because a lot of work can be done via Jinja templating. This trivial example hopefully illustrates what I mean: