Leopard DNS

[joelande]

Does anybody know if they fixed the following Tiger DNS issues in Leopard?
1. Changes to DNS being transfered to secondary servers
2. Reverse lookup records being transfered to secondary servers
3. Ability to alias the root domain – i.e when you set up example.com, can you create an alias to example.com that points to your web server so that both example.com and http://www.example.com go to the web server? In Tiger you had to add this in the CLI, which of course meant you could not use the GUI for anything.

[jerkyjerk]

They have three types of records you can add. Alias (CNAME) Machine (A) and Service (SRV).

From the testing I’ve done so far on Leopard I feel I’ll still need to forgo the GUI and hand edit my zones. The biggest weakness I see so far is the Zone transfer (AXFR) is either all or nothing. There isn’t any ability that I see to limit zone transfers to specific host(s) in the GUI. Reverse zones don’t have any checkbox like forwards. IIRC the zone stanza in named.conf has allow transfer set to none. I don’t expect something like a GUI to TSIG to configure zone transfers just a few text fields to add the secondaries IPs would be ok.

Here are a few screen grabs of the GUI if you haven’t seen it already.

[url]http://www.jerkys.org/leopard/dns1.png[/url]
[url]http://www.jerkys.org/leopard/dns2.png[/url]
[url]http://www.jerkys.org/leopard/dns3.png[/url]

jerky

[kamil]

The GUI for editing DNS in Server Admin is so broken it makes me want to cry every time I look at it. Who the heck programmed that thing? Some summer intern?

The only way to get a workable DNS configuration is to edit the zone files by hand.

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