Re: Oh! Idea for penderel!
At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:52:54 -, "Jonathan Peterson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could we create domains for every user and then put the zone files in each person's home dir, with a SUID script to kick named? Then I could have *.jon.penderel.state51.co.uk and be able to quickly create names and mx records for things when I need to, which is surprisingly often. Everyone would get $USERNAME.penderel.state51.co.uk Sounds like a fun idea to me, but then IANABOFH, so what do I know :) I'm happy to set this up if anyone is interested (although, frankly, you'd be mad to let me anywhere near a root password and a copy of bind) Yep. Bind scares me too. You can do Really Bad Things with it. Speaking of DNS, did we ever hear anything from the pm.org DNS people? Dave...
Re: Oh! Idea for penderel!
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Dave Cross wrote: At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:52:54 -, "Jonathan Peterson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could we create domains for every user and then put the zone files in each person's home dir, with a SUID script to kick named? Then I could have *.jon.penderel.state51.co.uk and be able to quickly create names and mx records for things when I need to, which is surprisingly often. Everyone would get $USERNAME.penderel.state51.co.uk Sounds like a fun idea to me, but then IANABOFH, so what do I know :) I'm happy to set this up if anyone is interested (although, frankly, you'd be mad to let me anywhere near a root password and a copy of bind) Yep. Bind scares me too. You can do Really Bad Things with it. Speaking of DNS, did we ever hear anything from the pm.org DNS people? Not from my initial e-mail - I have fired off another today and hope that we might get some action. /J\ -- Jonathan Stowe | http://www.gellyfish.com | I'm with Grep on this one http://www.tackleway.co.uk |
Re: Oh! Idea for penderel!
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 02:52:54PM -, Jonathan Peterson wrote: I'm happy to set this up if anyone is interested (although, frankly, you'd be mad to let me anywhere near a root password and a copy of bind) Heh. djbdns is, despite being a bernsteinism, very good. For values of 'very good' which are equivalent to 'not bind'. It's smaller, easier to configure, and more secure. All in all, it's a Jolly Good Thing. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced
Re: Oh! Idea for penderel!
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 03:31:00PM +, David Cantrell wrote: On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 02:52:54PM -, Jonathan Peterson wrote: I'm happy to set this up if anyone is interested (although, frankly, you'd be mad to let me anywhere near a root password and a copy of bind) Heh. djbdns is, despite being a bernsteinism, very good. For values of 'very good' which are equivalent to 'not bind'. It's smaller, easier to configure, and more secure. All in all, it's a Jolly Good Thing. aol
Re: Oh! Idea for penderel!
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 03:48:03PM +, David Cantrell wrote: On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 03:43:28PM +, Michael Stevens wrote: On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 03:31:00PM +, David Cantrell wrote: Heh. djbdns is, despite being a bernsteinism, very good. For values of 'very good' which are equivalent to 'not bind'. It's smaller, easier to configure, and more secure. All in all, it's a Jolly Good Thing. aol However, I don't believe it supports some of the more weird DNS entries you can have like HINFO and LOC records. [dcantrel@tim-the-enchanter dcantrel]$ nslookup set type=HINFO ariadne.barnyard.co.uk ariadne.barnyard.co.ukCPU = Amstrad CPC OS = Amsdos / CPCIP Yay! Not supporting such silliness may be considered a Bad Thing by some people. I'm fairly sure it is supported, through an escape that allows you to return any record type. --cut-- :fqdn:n:rdata:ttl:timestamp:lo Generic record for fqdn. tinydns-data creates a record of type n for fqdn showing rdata. n must be an integer between 1 and 65535. The proper format of rdata depends on n. You may use octal \nnn codes to include arbitrary bytes inside rdata. --cut-- (from http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tinydns-data.html) Michael
Re: Oh! Idea for penderel!
David Cantrell wrote: However, I don't believe it supports some of the more weird DNS entries you can have like HINFO and LOC records. You learn fast young Grasshopper. Oh, wait. You weren't there last night. http://www.2shortplanks.com/simon/ip2ll/2.html
Re: Oh! Idea for penderel!
Jonathan Stowe [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * * Speaking of DNS, did we ever hear anything from the pm.org DNS people? * * *Not from my initial e-mail - I have fired off another today and hope that *we might get some action. As far as I know, Ben Hockenhull is still doing DNS for the PM box though it may take some time as things are in trasition from one place to another and DNS changes probably aren't high in the queue. e.
