I've been told that Microsoft's DNS server allows a zone to be updated dynamically, yet some names in the zone be protected from changes via dynamic updates. And I was told that BIND lacks this feature, having its granularity of control strictly by zone. I would assume Microsoft's GUI makes this simple to manage, :-) but the mechanism would be functionally like having a list of names stored somewhere that the dynamic update mechanism would refuse to modify in the zone file.
On Sep 28, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Mike Diggins wrote: > > My DNS environment (BIND) consists of a Master Name Server which is > updated via a Database. A web page allows for changes, which updates > the > database, and periodically the database is dumped out to zone files for > named, which are read and propagated to my slaves via regular zone > transfers. > > My question is about transitioning to Dynamic updates, which I am not > yet > allowing. We have a number of zones, all updated through the Web > interface > I describe above. What happens if I want a client to be able to update > one > of those zones dynamically, while still updating all the static > entries in > the same zone, via the Web/Database and zone transfers? Is that even > possible to update a zone this way, and allow dynamic updates? I can't > seem to wrap my head around that. Can someone straighten me out? > > -Mike >
