Hi,
On several occasions we've had the need for xCAT to retain custom
information such as external hosts or 'forwarder' entries to the /etc/named
file. These files get generated from tables by commands like 'makehosts'
or 'makedns'.
The problem is that if the '-n' flag is used with the above commands, it
wipes out any custom entries we've added to those files.
Example: in order to properly accommodate for an Isilon Smart connect ip
address (used for round robin ip assignment) we had to add a Forwarder
stanza to /etc/named.conf
If makedns -n is run (whether on purpose or accident) the entire file gets
rebuilt and our custom stanza gets deleted.
We had to modify the xCAT perl script that creates the file to append the
forwarder stanza from a text file at the end of named whenever the '-n'
flag is used with makedns.
Question/Feature request: Does xCAT have a method to include custom
entries to files so that they're not lost if someone runs an xCAT tool with
the -n flag (or custom external hosts in /etc/hosts)?
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Brian Joiner
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