[cobalt-developers] DNS BUG in All Cobalt Products [missing feature]

[Barry Titmarsh <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DNS SOA records do require to have more than ONE NS pointer record.
on all Cobalt products there is no way to add the second NS pointer record 
You can only add an A record which creates the SOA with only ONE NS pointer 
record. so with Bind 8.2 how does the DNS server inform its secondaries 
there has been an update .  Well is cant because the SOA does not know 
about any other NS's in the domain

This needs to be fixed fast please else as an ISP I cannot use Cobalt boxes 
as DNS's as a result of this I have to withdraw 10 boxes from service and 
go back to my Old systems


Should look like this:-------

$TTL 86400
$ORIGIN org.uk.
titmarsh        IN      SOA     boobox.sheringham.org.uk. 
admin.boobox.sheringham.o
rg.uk. (
                2000022501 10800 3600 604800 86400 )
                IN      NS      boobox.sheringham.org.uk.
                IN      NS      ns3.nacamar.net.
                IN      MX      30 mail.titmarsh.org.uk.
                IN      MX      40 boobox.caberfeidh.co.uk.
$ORIGIN titmarsh.org.uk.
mail            IN      A       194.162.229.19

but on a cobalt box it looks like this:-------------

$TTL 86400
titmarsh.org.uk. IN SOA boobox.sheringham.org.uk. 
admin.boobox.sheringham.org.uk. (
        2000021514
        10800
        3600
        604800
        86400
        )
titmarsh.org.uk.        IN      NS      boobox.sheringham.org.uk.
; End SOA Header
mail.titmarsh.org.uk.   in      a       194.162.229.19

So how do you add the other IN  NS  xyz.domain.net.  pointers ?? there is 
no way to add this from the WEB Front end. on possibility is to edit the 
file but then this gets destroyed when the WEB Front end touches it.


PLEASE Look and FIX asap.


Barry






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