Add new zones to dedicated file instead of /etc/named.conf

[kristian]

Hi,

I'm in the process of automating as much as possible of our DA servers with Ansible, and I'd like to manage /etc/named.conf with automation. Since DA writes new zones to the bottom of this file, this is slightly difficult.

Is there a way to have DA write the new zone definitions to a separate file instead, that is included from /etc/named.conf?

 

[SeLLeRoNe]

You can use the script domain_create_post.sh to change how DA act.

In the specific, you may add an include in named.conf to load domain.conf (for example), than with domain_create_post.sh script (i think you will have to use also domain_destroy_post.sh) you can simply remove the line from named.conf that DA did add and add it to domain.conf file.

Regards

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

As Andrea already mentioned you can use post scripts. Alternatively you can achieve this the following way.


1. Change directadmin to use another, fake named.conf, for example /etc/named.conf.fake

# touch /etc/named.conf.fake
# echo "namedconfig=/etc/named.conf.fake" >>  /usr/local/directadmin/conf/directadmin.conf

restart directadmin and check:

# /usr/local/directadmin/directadmin c | grep namedconfig
namedconfig=/etc/named.conf.fake

Make sure to copy zones from /etc/named.conf into /etc/named.conf.fake.

2. Fill the file /etc/named.conf with your own instructions. It won't be touched by Directadmin since that.

 

[SeLLeRoNe]

Oh that's a good one Didn't know the named.conf file was configurable in directadmin.conf

Thanks for the hint

Regards