[Infrastructures] RCS/CVS

Theo Van Dinter felicity@kluge.net
Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:32:01 -0400


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On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 03:35:38PM -0500, Pete Ehlke wrote:
> I mean, this is a special case of a generic problem- configuration data
> should always be generated by a reliable process that reads a simple
> canonical source and writes syntactically correct configs- but of all
> things, DNS zone files are a plain nightmare to maintain by hand. It's
> just too damn easy to forget a trailing . somewhere, incorrectly
> increment serial numbers, hork up the value of $ORIGIN...

This feels like a good time to bring up a program I wrote a while ago
called mkrdns (Make Reverse DNS), available from http://www.mkrdns.org/

For those who like/don't mind editing the zone files directly (works
perfectly fine for me), the script lets you edit only the forward zones
while having the reverse zones automatically generated.  This allows
the forward zones to be used as a single point of configuration, which
is less likely to have simple errors.

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