[Systems] [gnu.org #552346] [Fwd: Reverse DNS for translate.sugarlabs.org]

[Bernie Innocenti]

On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 15:47 +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 05:07:20PM -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> 
> > This is the reverse zone I wrote for us.
> Does BIND really still require you to manually generate the PTR records 
> and put them into a separate file where they get out of sync easily?
> 
> Maybe we should maintain the DNS records in tinydns-data format and 
> convert it to BIND format after checkout on the server. Or at least 
> generate it automatically using a set of templates and scripts...
> 
> I'd forgotten how ugly BIND is (tinydns-data sets the serial number 
> automatically as well, BTW).

I'm all for improving the maintainability of our zone files, as long as
the initial investment to automate things doesn't outweigh the time we'd
save doing it manually for the next 3 years.

Can we work on this together? Checkout the zone data and have a look at
what we'd need to do.

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