Folks,
A comment from the "cheap" seats, OK?
I "own" a delegated subdomain and so I "own" & operate a pair of DNS
servers. Needless to say, as a PenguinHead (as opposed to a ParrotHead,
hey, I'm in Florida, so that difference has to be reinforced) my DNS
servers are running SuSE Linux.
Depending upon how the DNS setup is done (SuSE has its own YAST2
based mechanism to manage the "zone" files) this can be a fairly painless
process or a bizarre set of manual editing process of a bunch of zone files
(yes, "ouch", because there are two places to be maintained, the forward
zone (name to IP) and reverse (IP to name) and each of these files as a
need for a "serial" number allowing an update to be recognized.
Mind you, because I often have a whole stack of DNS changes at once,
I have my own set of scripts to generate and populate both the forward and
reverse zone files that I'm resonsible for, and, yes, being a development
kind of guy I use both make files and RCS, which helps. I don't edit zone
files directly because those are WAY too complicated so I have an
intermediate form which gets turned into all of the needed zone files.
So, yeah, depending upon the blue tape you may have to navigate (all
right, so "blue tape" is kind of specific to IBM) this is NOT necessarily a
major inconvenience, all depending upon how the DNS minor deity has set up
their system.
And, yeah, I don't allow dynamic updates from a client system.
-soup
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On Apr 6, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Tim Hare wrote:
> Now that my Linux partition is up, how do I get the external DNS
> server to
> know its name? The DNS chapter in SG24-4987 describes a lot about
> how DNS
> works and how to forward requests to our company's DNS server (in
> fact it
> looks like the installation process set that up after asking me for
> the IP
> address of the DNS server) - but it doesn't say how this host's
> name gets
> associated with its IP address in DNS. Is that a manual or automatic
> process?
If your DNS is at all sane it's a manual process.
You really don't want random hosts inserting themselves into your
DNS. Despite the way Active Directory works.
So, in short, call whomever maintains the DNS server and say "I need
address X to resolve to y.z.com."
Adam
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