Re: [webmin-devel] djbdns/tinydns suppport for virtualmin?

I'd suggest another variable, just in case someone has both a BIND
and djbdns domain enabled for the same virtual server (crazy as that
sounds :-)

Perhaps name is djbdns_submode

 - Jamie

On 08/Aug/2008 13:52 John Gray wrote ..
> I see the bind code uses dns_submode to denote this.
> 
> I guess the question is this: Better for the tinydns code to use the 
> same var, or another one?
> 
> John
> 
> Jamie Cameron wrote:
> > On 08/Aug/2008 13:21 John Gray wrote ..
> >> Hi Jamie,
> >>
> >> I took the powerdns module, and used to it from template to setting up 
> >> module for tinydns.  I have it working now (though it needs some config 
> >> work yet).
> > 
> > Awesome! If it's OK, you should make it publicly available when it is done..
> > I know several people have expressed interest in djbdns due to it's lower
> > memory use.
> > 
> >> As I was working on it, I came across a big question.  Sometimes we add 
> >> aliases to existing domains to into already existing domain, for instances.
> >>
> >> we add
> >> foo.com, then add an alias for it as foo.bar.com, and bar.com is an 
> >> existing domain on the server.  With that foo.bar.com is added as new 
> >> domain, instead of entry for foo being added to bar.com.
> >>
> >> I was toying with the idea of checking to see if a higher-level domain 
> >> is there, so for example if I am adding
> >> a.b.c.d I'd check for b.c.d, then c.d, then d.  If I find one of them, 
> >> then I'd add entries to it, instead of creating a new domain.
> >>
> >> But I wondered if that would screw up other things?
> > 
> > That is a perfectly reasonable approach - in fact, Virtualmin already does
> > this for BIND when you add a sub-domain. You just have to make sure your
> > code keeps track of whether the djbdns domain was added as a real zone or
> > just as entries in an existing zone. The best way is to set some key in the
> > domain hash passed to the feature_setup function, which will be saved and
> > available when feature_modify and feature_delete are called.
> > 
> >  - Jamie
> > 
> >> Sound like a good idea or bad?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> John
> >>
> >> Jamie Cameron wrote:
> >>> On 02/Aug/2008 09:36 John Gray wrote ..
> >>>> There doesn't appear to be any tinydns support for virtualmin (or did I 
> >>>> overlook it)?
> >>>>
> >>>> With recent events, I think I've had enough of bind.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm not very concerned with configuring tinydns as much as just the day 
> >>>> to day issues of adding/deleting domains/entries.  Tinydns has cmd line 
> >>>> utilities for doing all this, so I would imagine it would be fairly easy 
> >>>> to write a module to do it.  But I don't want to invent the wheel.
> >>>>
> >>>> If nothing exists, I'll create one ala the exim module (basicly just 
> >>>> what I need to facilitate adding/deleting/modifing virtual servers in 
> >>>> virtualmin).
> >>> Hi John,
> >>>
> >>> At the moment, there is no support for tinydns or djbdns in Virtualmin.
> >>> However, it's plugin architecture would make this pretty easy to add -
> >>> for example, I did one for PowerDNS a while ago that can be used instead
> >>> of the regular BIND feature. 
> >>>
> >>> You can get it from :
> >>> http://www.webmin.com/cgi-bin/search_third.cgi?search=powerdns
> >>> and check out the source.
> >>>
> >>>  - Jamie
> >>
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