On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:37 PM, John Stoffel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Guys,
>
> We've got an ancient internal DNS setup which is based on old C binary
> which builds the forward and reverse maps and stuffs them into DNS
> using the old 'kill -HUP ' method.
>
> This is now borked because of Dynamic DNS updates from various AD
> servers which provide DNS to laptops.  So when our script updates the
> SOA serial number, it pulls the one out of the file, but that's
> invariably wrong because the SOA serial has been steadily
> incrementing due to DDNS updates.  Fun.
>
> We don't want to upgrade the system right now, because it's alot of
> legacy untangling to do, so that will be a longer term project.
>
> So before I spend my time writing a script to do all this for me, I
> was hoping that someone else already had a script which:
>

Can you wrap the c rpogram in a shell script that ran a freeze before
the c program runs and a thaw afterwards (this assumes bind)?

In that case the ondisk zonefiles should match reality, donwside is
the DDNS is blocked while this happens.

-n

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