On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 02:59:32PM -0400, 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?
It is certainly possible to have both static and dynamic entries in the same zone. But I believe it's generally considered a better idea to put all of your dynamic entries in a separate zone - perhaps a subdomain of the main domain. It's certainly cleaner, ISTM. -- Joe Yao Qinetiq NA / Analex Contractor
