I noted with interest a few betas ago (I think it was beta 2) that the
"Hostnames and addresses" panel had entries for both internal and external
IP addresses (and you could set the address to "self" to automatically
assign the server's IP address - presumably for a dynamic IP situation). Was
this intended to act as a fully-fledged DNS server, so you could host your
own DNS records?
After the recent BIND security alert, was the package upgraded to the latest
BIND 8 or to BIND 9? (I haven't yet installed the next release of e-smith,
so I couldn't find out.) BIND 9.1 has the facility to enable multiple
"views" of the DNS namespace on different interfaces which would suit such a
situation as outlined above, where the "Hostnames and addresses" panel would
enable internal and external addresses to be defined.
My understanding is that BIND 9 is backward-compatible with BIND 8 and so
should be able to install right over an e-smith distribution... has anyone
successfully installed it? I'm planning to test it with the multiple "views"
feature and (when I get the time) try and integrate it into the "Hostnames
and addresses" panel - I'll keep the list posted on how I go.
Also, I just wanted to comment on how much e-smith has improved since I
started using version 4.0 - thanks to the e-smith team for all the great
work.
Cheers, from Duncan Maitland.
