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

[Dustin Black]

Interesting.  I see that there is some convention to the line return and
the preceding dash that is both odd and poorly documented.  I had:

manage_forward_zones: 'domain.com'

But changing that to:

manage_forward_zones:
    - 'domain.com'

seems to have solved the problem I've been having.

Thanks, James!

-Dustin Black

On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 15:35 -0400, James_Martin at ao.uscourts.gov wrote:
> 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:
> 
> > Dustin Black <dblack at vantage.com>
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> > [et-mgmt-tools] Cobbler BIND DNS management confusion
> >
> > 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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