Topic: Template friendly mods to DNS files

[Mark Rogers]

I need to make a change to:
   /home/dns/var/named/db.mydomain.co.uk
.. which isn't undone by e-smith.

Where should I do this?

Specifically, I have in the file (as entered via server-manager):
    mymachine   IN   A  192.168.10.12

after which I need to add:
    *.mymachine   IN   A  192.168.10.12

.. to allow wildcard subdomains to resolve correctly. I cannot enter *.mymachine via server-manager, but if I hard code it it soon vanishes.

[Ari]

I beleive you're looking for:

/etc/e-smith/templates/var/named/named.primarydomain

Cheers!
Ari

[Mark Rogers]

Having spent ages looking before I posted I found the answer just before I got your reply - typical. But thanks for confirmation as this isn't clear.

NEXT QUESTIONS:

1. How do I stop it updating other domains the same way? I only want it to update my primary domain but it's changing db.* at the moment.
2. How do I force an update of that file? Ie:
   /sbin/e-smith/expand-template

At the moment I'm making a change via server-manager to force the update but that's a pain.

For the record, what I have done so far is create:
    /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/var/named/named.primarydomain/41extraCNAMErecords

.. containing
    *.mymachine       IN      CNAME   mymachine

.. and that does the trick after the files have been updated.