MaraDNS as secondary

[Ken Lyons - Graphix Wizard/Data-Forms]

>>I've been working on a PHP based zone distribution and management framework
>>for MaraDNS, but a few features are holding me back.
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>>It would be awesome to get a few of these added:
>> - An "include" operator in the mararc config parser so that machine
>>specific and zone configs can be separated out
>> - A command line option to syntax check a config or zone file (Similar to
>>'apachectl configtest')
>> - Ability to reload the config (or at least the csv2 hash) without
>>restarting MaraDNS


Those feature would be nice. I think most of us, that use Mara, already made a work around.
For me I made a wrapper script that is run from  /etc/inittab  and 
a control script   /etc/init.d/maradns   
The wrapper simply  builds a new config from several flat files  (ie. cat xxx > /etc/mara.rc), 
the control script just kills off the PID to force a respawn and update.
I've been using Mara on a dozen production servers for 2 years, and so far, it's worked great.



Ken Lyons
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Sam Trenholme wrote:
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> 2008/6/12 Mike Damm <mike at damm.com>:
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>> I've been working on a PHP based zone distribution and management framework
>> for MaraDNS, but a few features are holding me back.
>>
>> It would be awesome to get a few of these added:
>>  - An "include" operator in the mararc config parser so that machine
>> specific and zone configs can be separated out
>>  - A command line option to syntax check a config or zone file (Similar to
>> 'apachectl configtest')
>>  - Ability to reload the config (or at least the csv2 hash) without
>> restarting MaraDNS
>>
>> Thanks,
>>  Mike
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>> Sam Trenholme wrote:
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>> Thanks a lot for the contributions to MaraDNS.  I'm really sorry that
>> I've been neglecting Mara; I will however integrate these scripts in
>> to MaraDNS 1.3 (if you don't mind) and release a new version of
>> MaraDNS 1.3 in the next few days.  Is this OK with you?  What is the
>> license for these scripts?
>>
>> The one thing I want to do before making a new release is getting
>> Deadwood (the next-generation recursive resolver; right now it's a
>> caching-only DNS server) to be able to read and write its cache from a
>> file.  I added this ability, but it's not working for some reason :(
>>
>> - Sam
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>> 2008/6/11 Steffen Beyer <sbeyer at reactor.de>:
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>> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:19:36 +0200, Steffen Beyer wrote:
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>> wanting to run Mara as a secondary DNS for a number of domains, I
>> developed two short Ruby scripts
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>> My attachments got truncated, as it seems.  :/
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>> Now I put the files here:
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>> http://teralink.net/misc/fetchzones.rb
>> http://teralink.net/misc/wipezones.rb
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>> Regards,
>> --
>> Steffen Beyer <sbeyer at reactor.de>
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