freeVSD-1.4.7 differs from freevsd-1.4.6 fairly marginally. There has been a
correction to vsd-vsbatch.pl to resolve the file/directory ownership
problems affecting sendmail, vsd-genhostcert.pl and associated SSL
authentication code have been modified to look for host server '<root>'
certificates in a directory which reflects the destination machine name, ie
/usr/local/etc/vsd/ca/client/localhost/root.key, and mod_bind has been
incorporated. With a production server you will not be regenerating the skel
and have presumably corrected the file ownerships problems yourself, or
sendmail wouldn't be working, so the first change will not have an effect.
The second change will only affect you if you are using SSL certificates to
authenticate connections, so probably the only change which should affect
you is the introduction of mod_bind.
To test mod_bind in action it is simplest to establish a hosting server
which is running BIND-8 and have all the virtual servers it hosts refer to
it as their primary DNS (NOTE: it is important that nameservers are referred
to by name NOT ip in freevsd.conf for mod_bind to operate correctly). This
will make all the new mod_bind commands available (just type vsdadm to see
them) to experiment.
Of course, having each host server running its own nameserver is not
practical for a real working environment. Instead it is necessary to install
freeVSD onto your existing BIND-8 nameserver. It is not necessary to
generate a skel as the nameserver will not actually carry out any virtual
hosting. When you issue a vsdadm bind_addvs command a request is sent to VSD
on the nameserver(s) and a virtual server is added to their freevsd.conf
file. Once this has been done other commands, such as vsdadm bind_add can be
used to manipulate the nameserver database. Based on the requests it
receives mod_bind generates a zone file, /var/named/named.conf which should
be included into /etc/named.conf file.
So, I don't foresee any problems with implementing freeVSD-1.4.7 on an
existing installation, but, as always, it would be prudent to proceed with
due caution.
Any problems. Get in touch.
Tim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dave Cost
> Sent: 02 April 2001 19:19
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: freeVSD 1.4.7
>
>
> Tim,
>
> where're the release notes? I have a production rh7 server and
> would like to
> upgrade cautiously....
>
> Dave.
