In the message dated: Tue, 27 Jun 2023 17:46:50 -0000, The pithy ruminations from Tomer Shachaf on [[External] [xcat-user] DNS] were: => Hi xCAT folks , => => I would like to know if I can add to the DNS server my own records ( A => & PTR) . Dose it possible ? its to use the xCAT as DNS server for more => components such as VMs etc . If it possible how I should do that ? Many => thanks ahead =>
Yes. You can add arbitrary records in /etc/hosts, which is the source of data used by "makedns" for the xCAT DNS server. This is easy, but not a great idea because running 'makehosts -n' will remove all changes that are not within xCAT. It is better to use "namedincludes" (https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/admin-guides/references/man5/site.5.html?highlight=namedincludes#site-attributes) to include arbitrary file content within named.conf generated by xCAT "makedns". Be aware that the 'makedns' parsing of /etc/hosts and included files to create DNS records is not perfect -- round-robin DNS entries (creating a single user-facing address for multiple CES nodes, for example) are broken: https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/issues/6901 https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/issues/6900 (maybe this has been fixed without closing the github issues). Mark => => => Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for => Windows => => _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
