Re: [cobalt-users] DNS Problems

[lists <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I didn't manual edit the pri files. I need to dump the records file and
reload it with the pri files. How do I do this? I can't loose all the info
in the pri files.


At 11:50 AM 12/10/99 -0800, you wrote:
>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
>
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