Re: name server zone list

2009-04-06 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 08:15:16AM -0500, Sandy Mackenzie sa...@masterclyde.ca wrote a message of 23 lines which said: I want to be able to produce a simple list of the zones on my DNS servers. There is work going on at the IETF on that subject. The requirments document is almost done:

Re: name server zone list

2009-04-04 Thread Chris Thompson
On Apr 3 2009, Niall O'Reilly wrote: Or Google for vixie metazone (without the quotes). ... and it tells me I probably wanted to know about nosedrops (Vista-methasone) ... :-) [yes, OK, and some real links as well] -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

RE: name server zone list

2009-04-03 Thread Todd Snyder
You say my DNS servers - if you own them, why not just look at the named.conf? grep zone named.conf should tell you pretty quickly. If you are using external hosting, you will need to talk to your provider. They should be able to provide you a list. t. -Original Message- From:

Re: name server zone list

2009-04-03 Thread Chris Thompson
On Apr 3 2009, Sandy Mackenzie wrote: I want to be able to produce a simple list of the zones on my DNS servers. Is there anyway to do this with dig or any other tool? This one is hardy perennial, of course, but I've been working on an index zone in a certain local DNS context recently, and

Re: name server zone list

2009-04-03 Thread R Dicaire
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Chris Thompson c...@cam.ac.uk wrote: This one is hardy perennial, of course, but I've been working on an index zone in a certain local DNS context recently, and thinking how convenient it would have been if BIND had provided one for me (under class CHAOS, name

Re: name server zone list

2009-04-03 Thread Chris Thompson
On Apr 3 2009, R Dicaire wrote: On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Chris Thompson c...@cam.ac.uk wrote: This one is hardy perennial, of course, but I've been working on an index zone in a certain local DNS context recently, and thinking how convenient it would have been if BIND had provided one

RE: name server zone list

2009-04-03 Thread Todd Snyder
BIND already creates an internal view _bind with class CH to contain the zones version.bind, hostname.bind, authors.bind, etc. I was thinking in terms of zones.bind living there as well. Of course there's the barber-shaving question: should zones.bind contain an entry describing itself? My

Re: name server zone list

2009-04-03 Thread Chris Buxton
On Apr 3, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Todd Snyder wrote: BIND already creates an internal view _bind with class CH to contain the zones version.bind, hostname.bind, authors.bind, etc. I was thinking in terms of zones.bind living there as well. Of course there's the barber-shaving question: should

RE: name server zone list

2009-04-03 Thread Todd Snyder
I agree with Rick Dicaire that this should not be done as a zone at all. Instead, this should be implemented in rndc. I do agree with the premise that it would be nice to be able to have a list of all zones on the server. I would tend to agree that rndc is the best place for it, except in

Re: name server zone list

2009-04-03 Thread Alan Clegg
The entire list of zones is available in XML format in the statistics channel in 9.5 Yep, you need to parse for it, but it's there... AlanC signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org

Re: name server zone list

2009-04-03 Thread R Dicaire
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Alan Clegg alan_cl...@isc.org wrote: The entire list of zones is available in XML format in the statistics channel in 9.5 Yep, you need to parse for it, but it's there... Hah beautiful, why reinvent the wheel :) I've not yet moved to 9.5 simply because I

Re: name server zone list

2009-04-03 Thread John Wobus
Besides all the methods discussed, you could invent your own zone that has this data in a format of your choosing., e.g. example.com.myzones.example.com TXT example.com example2.com.myzones.example.com TXT example2.com Then: dig @nameserver axfr myzones.example.com Your design creativity and

Re: name server zone list

2009-04-03 Thread Chris Buxton
On Apr 3, 2009, at 12:42 PM, Niall O'Reilly wrote: On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 15:26 -0400, John Wobus wrote: Besides all the methods discussed, you could invent your own zone that has this data in a format Or Google for vixie metazone (without the quotes). /Niall Or search the

Re: name server zone list

2009-04-03 Thread Kevin Darcy
I use PTR instead of TXT records for this, since PTRs can benefit from label compression. - Kevin John Wobus wrote: Besides all the methods discussed, you could invent your own zone that has this data in a format of your choosing., e.g. example.com.myzones.example.com TXT example.com