[TriLUG] Need secondary DNS provider

[Cristóbal Palmer]

Then you'd need a special extra parser to make sure whatever they had
put in their ~ was safe, or else some special non-bind, highly
restricted format for people to specify what they need, and a parser
to turn a collection of those into a bind conf.

On 2/17/10, Dave Hostetler <hostetler.david at gmail.com> wrote:
> You could have the users create a folder in their home dir, then use a root
> cron script to grab all of that info so that it is not necessary for people
> to access the dns configs directly.
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> Dave
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> On Feb 17, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Alan Porter wrote:
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>>> can the trilug machine do this? Seems like a useful thing to
>>> do for members.
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>> I am sure that it would not be too hard to provide DNS service
>> on the TriLUG machines.
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>> However, what WOULD be hard is the user interface where we allow
>> our members to make changes to their DNS records.  We probably
>> don't want to go passing the root passwords around.  So we'd need
>> a secure way for folks to make their own DNS changes, and to
>> securely consolidate them together into a single BIND/whatever
>> config.
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>> I am not aware of any ready-to-use packages that do that part.
>> And I really don't feel like experimenting in this space.  If you
>> find a multi-user DNS management package, please share with the
>> group.  Otherwise, I would recommend the free services mentioned
>> here.
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