RE: [Nolug] DNS/Reverse Lookup and a Host file.

Because of DDNS and some of our hosts are registering themselves this really
isn't working. I will most likely do the child domain (routers.stei.com) and
work with that. When the named starts it reads the $INCLUDE statement it
actually copies that into the working file when the first journal file is
committed. That's causing some other issues that I wasn't expecting to deal
with, like how can I remove routers that no longer exist. This was easy when
I was replacing a single file every night and I could keep them separate,
with DDNS this crimps that plan.

I'll look for a way to increment the serial number using the date after I
separate the dns data again.

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Harney [mailto:scotth@scottharney.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 9:12 AM
To: nolug@joeykelly.net
Subject: Re: [Nolug] DNS/Reverse Lookup and a Host file.

Judson Lester <jlester@tulane.edu> writes:

> Actually, the convention I've seen more often than not is that the
> serial number be a concatenation of the date, with the last two digits
> being for multiple changes on the same day (YYMMDDCC). Depending on
> when the cron job runs, you could probably avoid reading the old file
> and just produce the date concatenation with either a low change
> number or a high change number, and a comment about what the script
> does so that any by-hand changes can play nice.

Correct. That is exactly how I do serial numbers and it is a highly
recommended approach. actually a 4 digit year is better. That's what
I was recommending -- modifying h2n to parse the serial number, incrementing
according to standard in place in the local environment, and include that
updated serial number in it's final output. I would bet there are
other scripts available that already do this. Google and CPAN would
be of help here ;)

-- 
Scott Harney<scotth@scottharney.com>
"...and one script to rule them all."
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