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

"Jamie Cameron" <[email protected]> Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:08:31 -0700 (PDT)
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The cases where it is used in that file wouldn't be related to your
plugin, so it's safe not to use it ..

On 08/Aug/2008 14:02 John Gray wrote ..
> Ok, though I noticed one reference in virtual-server-lib-funcs.pl to 
> your var.  I thought it might be good if virtual-server-lib-funcs.pl 
> didn't have to worry about which dns module did it.
> 
> John
> 
> Jamie Cameron wrote:
> > 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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