Re: [webmin-devel] djbdns/tinydns suppport for virtualmin?
John Gray <[email protected]> Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:14:41 -0400
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I sent you a copy privately. Feel free to post it if you think its up to snuff. John Jamie Cameron wrote: > On 11/Aug/2008 04:42 John Gray wrote .. >> I just about have the module written. One last question (I hope). >> >> In tinydns A records are define this way: >> +name:IP:optionally TTL >> >> That'll define the A record. If you change the + to =, then a match PTR >> reocrd in generated too. >> >> What I'm thinking about doing is a looking up IP, if doesn't around have >> PTR record, I'll set the record to create both the A and PTR records. >> So an IP verse will match the first record defined using it. > > Sounds harmless to me. Although in most Virtualmin deployments, users > don't have control over the reverse DNS domain containing their system's > IP address, so PTR records don't matter much.. > >> Sound reasonable? I'm also buffed this module up over the powerdns >> module a bit. It looks at other flags to figure out if the mx record is >> needed for instance. > > Good idea! > > - Jamie > >> John >> >> Jamie Cameron wrote: >>> 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 >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> John Gray [email protected] >>>>>>>> AgoraNet, Inc. (302) 224-2475 >>>>>>>> 314 E. 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