Re: [cobalt-users] DNS Problems

[Kris Dahl <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 12/10/99 11:16 AM, lists at lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Anyone ever have this problem?
> 
> The cobalt Admin Control Panel doesn't display the same information that is
> in the pri.domain.com file.
> 
> If I do an nslookup of a domain, it says can't find domainname. Everything
> was working fine yesterday morning but today, dns is screwed. How do I get
> the control panel to be updated with the pri files and get things back up
> and running ?

Are you manually editing the pri.domain.com file?

This is one of the more asinine things that Cobalt has done.  Instead of
reading the pri.domain.com files and using that for the user interface, it
uses a file called records.  I believe that file is in /etc/named/ or /etc

This is basically a list of all the A records, MX records and ALIASES, and
reverse dns records that are in all of the pri. and in-address files.  After
you screw with your dns settings with the web interface (which is writing to
your records file), it runs a script that parses you records file and
converts it to the pri files, updated your named.conf and runs /sbin/ndc
reload.

If you run an 'save changes' from the web interface it will overwrite
everything in the pri. files (including any changes you've made).

Hope that clears it up.

-k