Re: AXFR from Bind oddities

Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:25:49AM +0200, Jakob Hirsch wrote:
>> DAve, 2010-04-12 19:00:
>>
>>>> It wouldn't be hard to add a few lines to axfr-get.c to format
>>>> txt records, but there would be no benefit I can see.
>>> As I suspected, I didn't fully understand what was going on 8^)
>>> This is a very unique situation for two client's only, so I will change
>>> my script to use dig to make the axfr query and Net-DNS-Zonefile to
>>> parse the result and load VegaDNS.
>> Um, why do you care? The output from axfr-get is perfectly suited for
>> tinydns, so as long as you don't want to manually edit the transferred
>> zone (which you probably won't), you can use it as-is with tinydns and
>> spare all the hassle.
> 
> He seems to be using VegaDNS, a quite simplistic web-based tinydns
> administration interface.  From what I've seen in its source,
> it cannot handle generic RR (:) lines.

Yep, we need to keep our DNS data in a DB for use within our intranet,
billing, management, etc. So everything needs converted to plain text
record fields for inserting into the DB.

Previously pre VegaDNS) none of this was a problem. It is simplistic,
but I have been able to modify it easily to fit our needs for that reason.

DAve
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