Re: [cobalt-developers] Order of records in /etc/named/records

[John Keegan <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> From looking at the way /usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt/dns/index.cgi does
> things, I think the order of records in /etc/named/records isn't relevant.
> I don't have a non-production RaQ3 to test things on, so a bit of feedback
> here would be nice <smile>.

You are correct, the order does not seem to matter. The dns cgi can parse
records properly no matter where they are located.

> The reason being, if order doesn't matter, I could simply add any DNS
> records I wanted to the end of the file, which would be much simpler than
> having to put them at some point in the middle of the file.

Yes, you could do that very easily. Just append the new records to
/etc/named/records , then restart named just by reloading
/usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt/dns/index.cgi . In Perl you would just do:

system "/usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt/dns/index.cgi";

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