[et-mgmt-tools] Cobbler BIND DNS management confusion

[James_Martin at ao.uscourts.gov]

Make sure you have something along the lines of this in your
/etc/cobbler/settings file:

manage_forward_zones:
    - 'lab.mycompany.com'


James S. Martin, RHCE
Contractor
Administrative Office of the United States Courts
Washington, DC
(202) 502-2394

et-mgmt-tools-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 06/19/2008 03:17:53 PM:

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> I could use some help understanding Cobbler's management of BIND.
>
> If I make any changes to the /etc/cobbler/named.template file and run
> 'cobbler sync', I can clearly see that the changes that I make are
> implemented in the /etc/named.conf file.
>
> Now I've been attempting to create a zone template under a directory
> created per the wiki ManageDns documentation
> -- /etc/cobbler/zone_templates.  I want to create a zone with static A,
> MX, and CNAME entries that are outside the scope of Cobbler's management
> for that zone.  If I create the zone template and run 'cobbler sync',
> should I then expect Cobbler to add the zone information to the
> named.conf file, as well as use the template to create an appropriate
> zone file under /var/named?  This doesn't seem to happen.
>
> If I try to add the zone information explicitly to
> the /etc/cobbler/named.template file, named gives an error when
> restarting that the /var/named/... zone file doesn't exist.
>
> I then thought that maybe Cobbler wouldn't create the named.conf zone
> entry or the zone file until a Cobbler system entry existed for a host
> in the domain.  I created a dummy system with a hostname in the domain
> in question and ran 'cobbler sync', but still no dice -- no zone entry
> and no zone file.
>
> What more do I need to understand about how this BIND management works?
> At what point or under what circumstances is the zone information
> generated?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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