Managine DNS (bind) information for OSX client

[LuKreme]

On 24-May-2007, at 12:24, Kurt Werle wrote:
> I will soon start managing 2-3 domain's DNS information.  I really  
> don't
> enjoy editing named.conf by hand.  I'm considering installing  
> webmin to
> help deal with this, but thought I'd ask for suggestions for other  
> tools.

No on ENJOYS editing named.conf by hand, but I've never used a tool  
that really makes any of that much easier.  Maybe webmin has really  
improved in the last 5 years, but when i last used it it was  
basically just a web portal into the named.conf and domain.tld files.

I use bbedit locally and nvi on my servers, usually by doing:

cp /etc/namedb/establisheddomain.tld /etc/named/newdomain.tld

vi /etc/named/newdomain.tld

<make the single change to the SOA line and change the serial number>

vi /etc/namedb/named.conf
shift-G             # end of file
yy                  # yank last line
p                   # put
/lastdomain.tld     # find whatever domain is on the last line
cw                  # ChangeWord
newdomaint.tld      # the new domain
esc                 # exit edit mode
n                   # find next occurance of lastdomain.tld
.                   # do again (cw to newdomain.tld)
ZZ                  # Save and exit nvi

and then restart named

Of course, then I have to go to my secondary DNS and edit named.conf  
there as well.

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